Wisdom in Ancient Israel,9780521624893

Wisdom in Ancient Israel

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ISBN13: 9780521624893
ISBN10: 0521624894
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-02-13
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

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 neighbors and discuss the place of wisdom in Israelite religion, theology and society.

Table of Contents

List of abbreviations xi
Introduction 1(16)
JOHN DAY
ROBERT P. GORDON
H.G.M. WILLIAMSON
Part 1 The ancient near eastern setting 17(38)
1 Egyptian wisdom literature
17(13)
J.D. RAY, Reader in Egyptology, University of Cambridge
2 Some new Babylonian wisdom literature
30(13)
W.G. LAMBERT, Emeritus Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham
3 The Wisdom of Ahiqar
43(12)
JONAS C. GREENFIELD, Formerly Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Part 2 Old Testament and Apocryphal texts 55(144)
4 Foreign Semitic influence on the wisdom of Israel and its appropriation in the book of Proverbs
55(16)
JOHN DAY, Reader in Biblical Studies, University of Oxford
5 The limits of theodicy as a theme of the book of Job
71(12)
E.W. NICHOLSON, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford
6 Qoheleth
83(11)
OTTO KAISER, Emeritus Professor of Old Testament, University of Marburg/Lahn
7 A house divided: wisdom in Old Testament narrative traditions
94(12)
ROBERT P. GORDON, Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Cambridge
8 Wisdom in Solomonic historiography
106(13)
ANDRE LEMAIRE, Directeur d'etudes, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Histoire et Philologie, Paris-Sorbonne
9 Amos and wisdom
119(5)
J.A. SOGGIN, Emeritus Professor of Old Testament, Waldensian Faculty, Rome
10 Hosea and the wisdom tradition: dependence and independence
124(9)
A.A. MACINTOSH, Dean of St John's College, Cambridge
11 Isaiah and the wise
133(9)
H.G.M. WILLIAMSON, Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Oxford
12 Jeremiah and the wise
142(10)
WILLIAM McKANE, Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages, University of St Andrews
13 The wisdom psalms
152(9)
R.N. WHYBRAY, Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament, University of Hull
14 Wisdom and Daniel
161(9)
B.A. MASTIN, Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies, University College of North Wales, Bangor
15 Ecclesiasticus: a tract for the times
170(12)
JOHN G. SNAITH, Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic, University of Cambridge
16 The Christian use and the Jewish origins of the Wisdom of Solomon
182(17)
WILLIAM HORBURY, Reader in Divinity, University of Cambridge
Part 3 Themes 199(88)
17 Were there schools in ancient Israel?
199(13)
G.I. DAVIES, Reader in Old Testament Studies, University of Cambridge
18 The trees, the beasts and the birds: fables, parables and allegories in the Old Testament
212(10)
KEVIN J. CATHCART, Professor of Near Eastern Languages, University College, Dublin
19 The personification of Wisdom
222(12)
ROLAND E. MURPHY, George Washington Ivey Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies, Duke University, North Carolina
20 Wisdom and the goddess
234(10)
JUDITH M. HADLEY, Assistant Professor of Old Testament, University of Villanova, Pennsylvania
21 Wisdom at Qumran
244(13)
A.S. VAN DER WOUDE, Emeritus Professor of Old Testament and Intertestamental Studies, University of Groningen
22 The interpretation of wisdom in nineteenth-century scholarship
257(12)
RUDOLF SMEND, Professor of Old Testament, University of Gottingen
23 Wisdom and Old Testament theology
269(18)
R.E. CLEMENTS, Emeritus Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament Studies, King's College, University of London
Biographical note: John Adney Emerton 287(2)
Bibliography of the works of John Adney Emerton 289(11)
KAREN K. MATICICH
Indexes 300

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