The Making of Sages: Biblical Wisdom and Contemporary Culture - Softcover

"Donn Morgan has long since demonstrated his profound understanding of the wisdom traditions of the Old Testament. His articulation of the sage has a ring of contemporaneity to it, as he ponders reflective voices who lead the community of inquiry down under technical competences to the more hidden, more urgent questions of design, responsibility, and interdependence. His inquiry serves to vivify Old Testament traditions and to address contemporary educators in the university, the seminary, and in society more generally. Morgan, himself, here functions as a sage, inviting readers to fresh, engaged reflection."--Sanford Lakoff

"Morgan deftly juxtaposes biblical and contemporary perspectives on what makes a "sage." Morgan cleaves to his goal of urging the church and other communities of faith "to relate wisdom of the past to new challenges and changing circumstances" (p.xvii). Eager for present-day professionals to engage biblical sages as dialogue partners, Morgan points the way by considering the identity and social location of ancient sages and their contemporary counterparts." J. Kenneth Kuntz, The University of Iowa, reviewed for Interpretation, April 2003--Sanford Lakoff

"Beginning with modern theory on the educative task, Donn Morgan
attempts to discover the nature of contemporary sagacity as viewed
throught the lens provided by biblical wisdom. His provocative
juxtaposition of sages, ancient and modern, generates more questions
than answers, and in doing so continues the work begun millennia ago in
a very different context." James L. Crenshaw, Robert L. Flowers
Professor of Old Testament Duke University

Donn Morgan explores the role of biblical sages and looks at their leadership and wisdom in a time of chaos, while asking where we can find such people today.