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Perspectives on Israelite wisdom : proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar / edited by John Jarick.

By: Oxford Old Testament Seminar
Contributor(s): Jarick, John [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies: 618.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies: Publisher: London : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2016Description: xxv, 494 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780567663160; 0567663167Subject(s): Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses | Wisdom literature -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- CongressesDDC classification: 223/.06 LOC classification: BS1505.52 | .O94 2016Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
The place and limits of wisdom revisited / Stuart Weeks -- Ethics in the wisdom literature of the Old Testament / John Barton -- 'Mother in Israel': women and wisdom / Jenni Williams -- Orality and the sage: a word (proverb) to the wise suffices / Aulikki Nahkola -- The nineteenth-century beginnings of 'wisdom literature', and its twenty-first-century end? / Will Kynes -- Literary and linguistic matters in the book of Proverbs / Gary A. Rendsburg -- 'The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom': calendars, divination and stories of terror / James E. Patrick -- One or two things you may not know about the universe: the cosmology of the divine speeches in Job / David J.A. Clines -- The canonical taming of Job (Job 42.1-6) / Terje Stordalen -- The rhetorical structure of Ecclesiastes / John Jarick -- Is patristic exegesis good for biblical scholarship? Jerome and Gregory of Nyssa on Qohelet / Jennie Grillo -- At play in potential space: reading King Qohelet's building experiment with psychoanalytic spatial theory / Mette Bundvad -- '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 -- The Song of Songs: a wisdom book / Edmée Kingsmill -- Wisdom and the Garden of Eden / John Day -- The absence of wisdom in the wilderness / Philip Y. Yoo -- Jeremiah, creation and wisdom / Katharine J. Dell -- Handel's Nabal / Deborah W. Rooke -- Ben Sira's table manners and the social setting of his book / James K. Aitken -- Ben Sira on friendship: notes on intertextuality and method / James E. Harding.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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

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