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Wisdom as a Hermeneutical Construct: A Study in the Sapientializing of the Old Testament (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fr die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 151) by Gerald T. Sheppard is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Behind this study stands the guru figure of Brevard S. Childs whose creative influence is acknowledged in the author’s foreword. To Childs Sheppard owes not only a hermeneutical approach to the Old Testament but also the more mystical modes of expression noted by Professor James Barr in his review of Childs’s Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture (London, 1979) in JSOT 16 (1980), pp. 12-23. But whereas Childs could do no more than sketch outlines, Sheppard’s more restricted undertaking, like earlier studies by his mentor, allows a detailed sampling of the canonical approach. Chela and mantra have come down from the mountain! Sheppard proceeds by two stages: first, to outline the ways in which Torah (= Pentateuch) was interpreted from a “wisdom perspective” in intertestamental writings, here represented by Sirach and Baruch, and then to present evidence of a similar tendency in the canonical shaping of various Old Testament books. The method is sound and there are palpable results. In the first place, while the sapientializing of Torah tradition is a feature of Sirach which has already benefited from the attention of a number of scholars (e.g. E. G. Bauckmann, J. Fichtner),

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Author

Gerald T. Sheppard

Publisher

Saur, K. G., Verlag. ein Imprint der Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110837087

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Christian, Religion

Updated

2026-03-24