essays in honour of J.A. Emerton Day, John Gordon, Robert P. Williamson, H. G. M. text xx New York Cambridge University Press 1995 9999 monographic und eng

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xiii, 311 p. ; 23 cm. 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.S. van der Woude -- The interpretation of wisdom in nineteenth-century scholarship / Rudolf Smend -- Wisdom and Old Testament theology / R.E. Clements. edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson Emerton, J. A. (John Adney), 1928- (Honoree.)Bible. O.T. Criticism, interpretation, etc.Bible. Old Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc BS1455 .W56 1995 9780521420136052142013X 220922