Perspectives on Israelite wisdom
Subtitle: proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar
By: edited by John Jarick
Contributors: Jarick, John, editor
Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 618; T & T Clark library of biblical studies; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 618.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780567663160
Subjects: Bible; Wisdom literature; Old Testament; Criticism, interpretation; Bibel; Weisheitsliteratur; RELIGION; Wisdom Literature; Congresses; Biblical Studies
Description: "This collection of essays examines the wisdom traditions of the Old Testament from a variety of angles. The slipperiness of the concept of 'wisdom literature', the transmission of 'wise' advice for living, rabbinic and patristic approaches to the Bible's wisdom traditions, and cutting-edge modern perspectives on such Old Testament books as Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes are all to be found here. In the tradition of the renowned previous volumes from the Oxford Old Testament Seminar - King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East (1998), In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel (2004), Temple and Worship in Biblical Israel (2005), and Prophecy and Prophets in Ancient Israel (2010)-this new volume again brings the scholarship of the Oxford Seminar, here focused on the rich subject of Old Testament wisdom traditions, to an international readership"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Text in English, some text in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and other languges.
Table of contents: title: The place and limits of wisdom revisited  -- Stuart Weeks; title: Ethics in the wisdom literature of the Old Testament  -- John Barton; title: 'Mother in Israel': women and wisdom  -- Jenni Williams; title: Orality and the sage: a word (proverb) to the wise suffices  -- Aulikki Nahkola; title: The nineteenth-century beginnings of 'wisdom literature', and its twenty-first-century end?  -- Will Kynes; title: Literary and linguistic matters in the book of Proverbs  -- Gary A. Rendsburg; title: 'The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom': calendars, divination and stories of terror  -- James E. Patrick; title: One or two things you may not know about the universe: the cosmology of the divine speeches in Job  -- David J.A. Clines; title: The canonical taming of Job (Job 42.1-6)  -- Terje Stordalen; title: The rhetorical structure of Ecclesiastes  -- John Jarick; title: Is patristic exegesis good for biblical scholarship? Jerome and Gregory of Nyssa on Qohelet  -- Jennie Grillo; title: At play in potential space: reading King Qohelet's building experiment with psychoanalytic spatial theory  -- Mette Bundvad; title: '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  -- Susan Gillingham; title: The Song of Songs: a wisdom book  -- Edmée Kingsmill; title: Wisdom and the Garden of Eden  -- John Day; title: The absence of wisdom in the wilderness  -- Philip Y. Yoo; title: Jeremiah, creation and wisdom  -- Katharine J. Dell; title: Handel's Nabal  -- Deborah W. Rooke; title: Ben Sira's table manners and the social setting of his book  -- James K. Aitken; title: Ben Sira on friendship: notes on intertextuality and method -- James E. Harding.