Wisdom Literature

This volume is the first comprehensive commentary on the wisdom texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls. John Kampen provides original translations of these works -- most of which are drawn from an extensive collection of fragments that only became widely accessible for study in 1991 -- augmenting them with scholarly notes, discussions of key terms, and detailed commentary. Kampen relates the body of wisdom literature discovered at Qumranto the larger wisdom tradition, to apocalyptic literature, to the Hebrew Scriptures, and to the New Testament, and he shows how these texts fit into -- and enhance our understanding of -- the complex social and intellectual history of Second Temple Judaism.

Author: John Kampen
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 03/01/2011
Pages: 404
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.37w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780802843845

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 12

About the Author
Kampen, John: - John Kampen is Van Bogard Dunn Professor of BiblicalInterpretation at Methodist Theological School in Ohio andan eminent scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the NewTestament. His other books include The Hasideans andthe Origin of Pharisaism: A Study of 1 and 2Maccabees.

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