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Wisdom in ancient Israel : essays in honour of J. A. Emerton / edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson.

Contributor(s): Day, John, 1948- | Gordon, R. P | Williamson, H. G. M. (Hugh Godfrey Maturin), 1947-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1995Description: xiii, 311 pages : portrait ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 052142013XSubject(s): Wisdom literature -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Emerton, John AdneyDDC classification: 223/.06 LOC classification: BS1455 | .W56 1995Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-299) and indexes.Local Note: Copy 2 is from the collection of Professor R. Norman Whybray.Differentiable Local Note:
Contents:
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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-299) and indexes.

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 . van der Woude -- The interpretation of wisdom in nineteenth-century scholarship / Rudolf Smend -- Wisdom and Old Testament theology / R.E. Clements.

Copy 2 is from the collection of Professor R. Norman Whybray.

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