By Joseph Blenkinsopp
During this quantity Joseph Blenkinsopp investigates 3 varieties of biblical Israel's highbrow and non secular management: the sage, the priest, and the prophet.
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But before proceeding further, we need to clarify what, in the present context, we take this term tradition to mean. The Idea of Tradition Judaism and Christianity are traditionalist in the Weberian sense that their institutions, mores, and leadership are legitimated by appeal to the past. " 3 The standard Christian approach can be summed up in the dictum quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus (what has always been believed everywhere and by all), attributed to Vincent of Lerin, while the Jewish idea of tradition with respect to the oral law is stated in lapidary fashion in the opening paragraph of the Mishnaic treatise pirqê 'abot*: Moses received Torah from Sinai and delivered it to Joshua; Joshua [delivered it] to the elders, the elders to the prophets, and the prophets delivered it to the men of the Great Assembly.
25:1), points in the same direction in spite of the missing definite article. 2 We can, at any rate, be sure that writings have survived from the period in question which require us to postulate a literary and intellectual tradition. With the exception of Ben Sira and possibly two small segments of Proverbs attributed to Agur and Lemuel respectively (Prov. 30:14 and 31:19), none of the authors is known by name, not surprising since anonymity was normal in antiquity. The main point is that these writings can serve to identify and characterize an intellectual tradition, and their authors can be taken to belong to a particular type of intellectual leadership within that tradition.
KNIGHT GENERAL EDITOR Page ix Preface Except where indicated, translations of biblical texts are my own. However, translations of Sirach (Ben Sira) are taken, with permission, from the Oxford Annotated Apocrypha, Revised Standard Version. Where the Hebrew and the English verse numberings differ, an unfortunately frequent occurrence, the English numbering is added in parentheses or brackets. I wish to thank the administration of the University of Notre Dame and my chairman Lawrence Cunningham for granting me a leave of absence in the spring semester of 1992, during which most of the first draft was written.