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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. In The Sword and the Stylus, Leo Perdue argues from a socio-historical approach that the proper understanding of ancient wisdom...

In this introduction I begin and end with the general view that the wisdom tradition cannot be understood apart from the larger social history of the cultures in which it took root and flourished and the more particular position that the understandings and roles of sages assumed their shape and changed within different social locations over the centuries. Wisdom was a product of the empires, which
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