Perspectives on Israelite Wisdom: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Issues in The Study of Israelite Wisdom -- The Place and Limits of Wisdom Revisited -- Ethics in the Wisdom Literature of the old Testament -- 'Mother in Israel': Women an...
| Summary: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Issues in The Study of Israelite Wisdom -- The Place and Limits of Wisdom Revisited -- Ethics in the Wisdom Literature of the old Testament -- 'Mother in Israel': Women and Wisdom -- Orality and the Sage: A Word (Proverb) to the Wise Suffices -- The Nineteenth-Century Beginnings of 'Wisdom Literature', and its Twenty-First-Century End? -- Part II: The Wisdom Corpus of the Hebrew Bible -- Literary and Linguistic Matters in the Book of Proverbs -- 'The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom': Calendars, Divination and Stories of Terror -- One or Two Things You May not Know About the Universe: The Cosmology of the Divine Speeches in Job -- The Canonical Taming of Job (JOB 42.1-6) -- The Rhetorical Structure of Ecclesiastes -- Is Patristic Exegesis Good for Biblical Scholarship? Jerome and Gregory of Nyssa on Qohelet -- At Play in Potential Space: Reading King Qohelet's Building Experiment With Psychoanalytic Spatial Theory -- Part III: Other Texts in Relation to Wisdom -- 'I Will Incline My Ear to a Proverb -- I Will Solve My Riddle to the Music of the Harp' (PSALM 49.4): The Wisdom Tradition and the Psalms -- The Song of Songs: A Wisdom Book -- Wisdom and the Garden of Eden -- The Absence of Wisdom in the Wilderness -- Jeremiah, Creation and Wisdom -- Handel's Nabal -- Ben Sira's Table Manners and the Social Setting of his Book -- Ben Sira on Friendship: Notes on Intertextuality and Method -- Index of References -- Index of Authors. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 0567663175 |