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Marcel Krusche

Verhängnisvolle Weisheit

Hybris und Fall der Weisen in alttestamentlicher Perspektive vor dem altorientalischen Hintergrund
[Fatal Wisdom. The Hubris and Fall of Wise Men from an Old Testament Perspective Against an Ancient Near Eastern Background.]
2025. Approx. 430 pages.
forthcoming in August 2025
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-164662-1
Published in German.
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Summary
What is wrong and problematic about wisdom, so that it can turn out to be fatal for the wise? Marcel Krusche addresses this question on the basis of Old Testament texts in which wisdom appears as an ambivalent or detrimental quality and the (supposedly) wise have a negative image.

Forschungen zum Alten Testament (FAT)