Publisher's Synopsis
WealthWise focuses on Wisdom literature. The texts examined here include the Instructions of Shuruppak, Codex Hammurabi, the Poem of the Pious Sufferer (Ludlul bel nemequ), the Babylonian Theodicy, the Shamash Hymn, the Dialogue of Pessimis, various Hittite texts, the Proverbs of Ahiqar, 4QInstruction, the Wisdom of Ben Sira, and the Wisdom of Solomon, plus Luke's "Sermon on the Plain" and the Epistle of James. This volume attempts to do two things: examine the primary socioeconomic motifs in the Bible from a comparative intertextual perspective and trace the trajectory formed by these motifs through Tanak into early. Jewish and Nazarene texts.
