UID:
almahu_9947414979602882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 311 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511520662 (ebook)
Content:
In this collection, an international group of specialists considers the nature of wisdom in relation to the thought world of the ancient Near East and its impact on the rest of the Old Testament. In addition to full coverage of the wisdom books and other literature most frequently thought to have been influenced by them, thematic studies also introduce the principal comparative sources among Israel's neighbours and discuss the place of wisdom in Israelite religion, theology, and society.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Pt. 1: The ancient near eastern setting -- Egyptian wisdom literature / J.D. Ray -- Some new Babylonian wisdom literature / W.G. Lambert -- The wisdom of Ahiqar / Jonas C. Greenfield -- Pt. 2: Old Testament and Apocryphal texts -- Foreign Semitic influence on the wisdom of Israel and its appropriation in the book of Proverbs / John Day -- The limits of theodicy as a theme of the book of Job / E.W. Nicholson -- Qoheleth / Otto Kaiser -- A house divided: wisdom in Old Testament narrative traditions / Robert P. Gordon -- Wisdom in Solomonic historiography / André Lemaire -- Amos and wisdom / J.A. Soggin -- Hosea and the wisdom tradition: dependence and independence / A.A. Macintosh -- Isaiah and the wise / H.G.M. Williamson -- Jeremiah and the wise / William McKane -- The wisdom psalms / R.N. Whybray -- Wisdom and Daniel / B.A. Mastin -- Ecclesiasticus: a tract for the times / John G. Snaith -- The Christian use and the Jewish origins of the Wisdom of Solomon / William Horbury -- Pt. 3: Themes : Were there schools in ancient Israel? / G.I. Davies -- The trees, the beasts and the birds: fables, parables and allegories in the Old Testament / Kevin J. Cathcart -- The personification of wisdom / Roland E. Murphy -- Wisdom and the goddess / Judith M. Hadley -- Wisdom at Qumran / A.S. van der Woude -- The interpretation of wisdom in nineteenth-century scholarship / Rudolf Smend -- Wisdom and Old Testament theology / R.E. Clements.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521420136
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511520662
