Sage Sayings is a compilation of some of the most inspiring, thought provoking, and sagacious words we have ever read. We certainly take no credit in penning these sage sayings nor can we, with much certainty, guarantee their authenticity. Nevertheless, the works, we are very certain, will cause you to pause, reflect, and perhaps even reprioritize. The collection includes proverbs, prayers, and quotations that we believe were written or spoken by a group of very wise men and women. As far as we can determine the origin of each of these seminal passages was a Native American. The compilation includes about 500 sayings we discovered.
We are more indebted to proverbs than we realise. Concise sayings, which express commonly held truths, convey like nothing else the ideals of a culture in captivating forms.
Sayings of a Sage is a modern day anthology of sayings and instructions. Be it witnessing the deaths of hundreds on the battlefields of Iraq, or while traversing through the streets of ghettos across America, many of the sayings, and perhaps some instructions, were composed during the most trying of times. The origin of the material, however, need not be imagined. All came manifestations of experience, yet much of the wisdom and observations could surely have been elaborated and re-expressed by learned scribes of antiquity whom I have studied over the past couple decades. There can be no doubt, however, that Sayings of a Sage is thought provoking literature that wins readers with its compelling portrait of wisdom and inviting them to see life afresh, "wisely," through its wit, originality, and shrewd observation. The primary purpose of the book is to teach wisdom, not only to the young and inexperienced, but to also welcome the older generation into a school of thought often ignored. Wisdom in the ancient Near East was not theoretical knowledge but practical expertise. Jewelers who cut precious stones were wise; kings who made their dominion peaceful and prosperous were wise. Can one not be wise in daily life, too, in knowing how to live and traverse through life without experiencing both peace and trouble in the Creator's omniverse? Ultimately, wisdom, aims at the formation of character and behavior. Sarim the Sage
Sage Sayings to Season the Soul is Maude Helen Baker's compilation of down-home, home spun sayings that she had heard from the time she was a child that, in their own way helped to mold and forge the person she became. Listed in alphabetical order, and sometimes written in the "old folks" vernacular, each saying has been explained in terms that can be understood by all. These sayings are from the "wisdom of the elders" and should not be ignored or discarded.
This volume analyzes the "Q materials" in the light of compositional conventions of ancient instructional genres. The author begins by assessing literary-critical approaches to Q which began with Harnack and have culminated in the work of Kloppenborg, Sato, and others. Next he articulates a theory of genre analysis drawn from text-linguistics, literary criticism, and rhetorical criticism. An array of ancient paraenetic texts is used to generate genre-critical models, in turn applied comprehensively to the double tradition materials. The results are used to critically assess recent redaction-history theories of Q's formation and to locate Q more securely among ancient paraenetic genres. The book will be of interest to synoptic gospels scholarship, historians of Christian origins, literary critics, and those investigating the production, social function, and performance of texts in early Christianity.
