Wisdom in Ancient Israel

Name: Wisdom in Ancient Israel
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ISBN: 9780521624893

ISBN-10: 0521624894

ISBN-13: 9780521624893

Edition: 1997 (Reprint)

Authors: John Day, Robert P. Gordon, Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson, J. D. Ray, W. G. Lambert

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Wisdom in Ancient Israel is a collection of essays on wisdom literature and its relation to ancient near eastern thought by an international group of specialists, who consider the nature of wisdom in relation to the Old Testament.

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/11/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction




The Ancient Near Eastern Setting



Egyptian wisdom literature




Some new Babylonian wisdom literature




The wisdom of Ahiqar




Old Testament and Apocryphal Texts



Foreign semitic influence on the wisdom of Israel and its appropriation in the book of Proverbs




The limits of theodicy as a theme of the book of




Qoheleth




A house divided: wisdom in Old Testament narrative traditions




Wisdom in Solomonic historiography




Amos and wisdom




Hosea and the wisdom tradition: dependence and independence




Isaiah and the wise




Jeremiah and the wise




The wisdom psalms




Wisdom and Daniel




Ecclesiasticus: a tract for the times




The Christian use and the Jewish origins of the Wisdom of




Were there schools in ancient Israel?




The trees, the beasts and the birds: fables, parables and allegories in the Old Testament




The personification of




Wisdom and the goddess




Wisdom at




The interpretation of wisdom in nineteenth-century scholarship




Wisdom and Old Testament theology



Biographical note



Bibliography of the works of



Indexes