Binding: Hardcover
Description: Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition begins with the recognition that modern culture emerged from a synthesis of the legacies of ancient Greek civilization and the theological perspectives of Jewish and Christian scriptures. Part of what made this synthesis possible was a shared outlook: a common aspiration toward wholeness of understanding that refused to separate knowledge from goodness virtue from happiness cosmos from polis and divine authority from human responsibility. This wholeness of understanding or wisdom features prominently in both classical and biblical literatures as an ultimate good. Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition has two central aims. The first is to explain in formal terms what wisdom is. Though wisdom involves matters of practical judgment affecting the life of the individual and the social sphere it has also been identified with an understanding of the world and of the ultimate realities that give meaning to human thought and action. Michael Legaspi explains how in its traditional form wisdom was understood to govern intellectual social and ethical endeavors. Legaspi's second aim is to analyze figures and texts that have yielded and shaped the traditional understanding of wisdom. This book examines accounts of wisdom from foundational texts that range from the period of Homer to the destruction of the Second Temple and explains why the search for wisdom remains an important but problematic endeavor today.
Title: Wisdom In Classical And Biblical Tradition
Author(s): Legaspi Michael (Associate Professor Of Classics And Ancient Mediterranean Studies And Jewish Studies Associate Professor Of Classics And Ancient Mediterranean Studies And Jewish Studies Pennsylvania State University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190885120
Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Date: 9/3/2018
Category: Biblical Studies & Exegesis