Wisdom in Ancient Israel

, by Edited by John Day , Robert P. Gordon , Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson

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ISBN: 9780521624893 | 0521624894
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Copyright: 2/13/1998

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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.

List of abbreviations

Introduction

(16)

JOHN DAY

ROBERT P. GORDON

H.G.M. WILLIAMSON

Part 1 The ancient near eastern setting

(38)

1 Egyptian wisdom literature

(13)

J.D. RAY, Reader in Egyptology, University of Cambridge

2 Some new Babylonian wisdom literature

(13)

W.G. LAMBERT, Emeritus Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham

3 The Wisdom of Ahiqar

(12)

JONAS C. GREENFIELD, Formerly Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Part 2 Old Testament and Apocryphal texts

(144)

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

(16)

JOHN DAY, Reader in Biblical Studies, University of Oxford

5 The limits of theodicy as a theme of the book of Job

(12)

E.W. NICHOLSON, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford

6 Qoheleth

(11)

OTTO KAISER, Emeritus Professor of Old Testament, University of Marburg/Lahn

7 A house divided: wisdom in Old Testament narrative traditions

(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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