Includes index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Hindy Najman , Jean-Sébastien Rey and Eibert Tigchelaar -- Is “Wisdom Literature” a Useful Category? / Stuart Weeks -- The Theme of Long-Range Planning in the Joseph Narrative and Some Second Temple Period Writings / James Kugel -- A Reflection on the Nature of Wisdom / Stéphanie Anthonioz -- Spiritual Formation in Hellenistic Jewish Wisdom Teaching / Elisa Uusimäki -- Ben Sira and Hellenistic Literature in Greek / Benjamin G. Wright III -- Sage as Prophet? Allusion and Reconfiguration in Ben Sira and Other Second Temple Wisdom Texts / Samuel L. Adams -- Sages and Saints: Continuous Study and Transformation in Musar le-Mevin and Serekh ha-Yaḥad / Arjen Bakker -- Searching for Wisdom in and beyond 4QInstruction / Matthew Goff -- The Simple Bare Necessities: Is Pss. Sol. 5 a Wisdom Prayer? / Patrick Pouchelle -- Pirqé Avot and Wisdom Tradition / Maurice Gilbert, S. J. -- The Wisdom Tradition in Rabbinic Literature and Mishnah Avot / Ishay Rosen-Zvi -- Manuals of Mantic Wisdom: From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Cairo Genizah / Gideon Bohak -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Authors.

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This volume is intended to problematize and challenge current conceptions of the category of “Wisdom” and to reconsider the scope, breadth and Nachleben of ancient Jewish sapiential traditions. It considers the formal features and conceptual underpinnings of wisdom throughout the corpus of the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hellenistic Jewish texts, Rabbinic texts, and the Cairo Geniza. It also situates ancient Jewish Wisdom in its Near Eastern context, as well as in the context of Hellenistic conceptions of the Sage.

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