Wisdom in Israel and in the ancient Near East
By: presented to Harold Henry Rowley by the Society for Old Testament Study in Association with the editorial board of Vetus Testamentum, in celebration of his sixty-fifth birthday, 24 March 1955 ; edited by M. Noth and D. Winton Thomas.
Contributors: Noth, Martin, 1902-1968.; Thomas, D. Winton 1901-; Rowley, Harold Henry, 1890-; Society for Old Testament Study.
Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum -- v. 3.
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Rowley, Harold Henry, -- 1890-; Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc..; Wisdom literature -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes: English, French, and German.

The structure and contents of the book of Koheleth / by H.L. Ginsburg -- Le modernisme de Job / par Paul Humbert -- Mashal [romanized form] / by A.R. Johnson -- "Man and his God" : a Sumerian variation on the "Job" motif / by Samuel Noah Kramer -- Die Krise des religio sen Glaubens bei Kohelet / von Aarre Lauha -- Wisdom in the Old Testament prophets / by Johannes Lindblom -- Psalms and wisdom / by Sigmund Mowinckel -- Die Bewa hrung von Salomos "Gottlicher Weisheit" / von Martin Noth -- Wisdom and immortality / by Johs. Pedersen -- Royal wisdom / by Norman W. Porteous -- Solomon and the beginnings of wisdom in Israel / by R.B.Y. Scott -- Textual and philological notes on some passages in the book of Proverbs / by D. Winton Thomas -- Hiob xxxviii und die alta gyptische Weisheit / von Gerhard von Rad.

"Select bibliography of the writings of Harold Henry Rowley, compiled by G. Henton Davies": p. [xi]-xix.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Some Canaanite-Phoenician sources of Hebrew wisdom / by W.F. Albright; value: Zur literarischen Analyse der Weisheit des Amenemope / von Albrecht Alt; value: A propos d'une phrase de H.H. Rowley / par H. Cazelles; value: Le messianisme sapiential et les origines litte raires du Fils de l'homme danie lique / par J. Coppens; value: The counsellor / by P.A.H. de Boer; value: Problems in the Hebrew text of Job / by G.R. Driver; value: Religionshistorie und Religionspolemik im Alten Testament / von Otto Eissfeldt; value: "Knowledge" and "life" in the creation story / by I. Engnell; value: The ri b- or controversy-pattern in Hebrew mentality / by B. Gemser.