The all-too-frequent disregard of historical and social contexts by
many wisdom scholars often leads to the distortion of this
literature and transforms its teachings into abstract ideas lacking
any incarnation in the social and historical world of human living.
Leo Perdue here argues from a sociohistorical approach that the
proper understanding of ancient wisdom literature requires one to
move out of the realm of philosophical idealism into the flesh and
blood of human history.
Arguing that wisdom was international in practice and outlook,
Perdue traces the interaction between both ruling and subject
nations and their sages who produced their respective cultures and
their foundational worldviews. While not always easy to
reconstruct, he acknowledges, the historical and social settings of
texts provide necessary contexts for interpretation and engagement
by later readers and hearers. Wisdom texts did not transcend their
life settings to espouse values regardless of time and
circumstance. Rather, they are located in a variety of historical
events in an evolving nation, reflecting a vast array of different
and changing moral systems, epistemologies, and religious
understandings.
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