Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Yoder, Christine Roy

Titel

The Sword and the Stylus: An introduction to Wisdom in the Age of Empires

Ist Teil von

• Interpretation, 2010, Vol.64 (2), p.182

Ort / Verlag

Richmond: Sage Publications Ltd. (UK)

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...] Perdue organizes his project for the most part chronologically, sweeping from Egyptian wisdom of the third millennium B.C.E. to "rabbinic" wisdom of the first six centuries CE. and, at every turn, pondering the impact of empires on the sages' social positions, roles, and worldviews. [...] Perdue's claim that "most research concerning wisdom for the past century" has been characterized by a "stranglehold of idealism," namely, a disregard of the literature's historical and social contexts (pp. 1-3), is a considerable overstatement.