02675cam a2200337Ia 450000100090000000300060000900500170001500800410003202000270007302000300010002000150013002000180014503500200016304000900018305000220027308200110029508200190030624501290032525000340045426000720048830000290056033600260058933700280061533800270064350400690067050514460073965000550218570000220224070000180226270000570228039138818OCoLC20240208130719.0980518r19981995enk      b    001 0 eng d  a0521624894 (paperback)  a9780521624893 (paperback)  a052142013X  a9780521420136  a(OCoLC)39138818  aMNGbengcNPTSdOCLCQdBAKERdNZABTdYDXCPdOCLCGdZWZdDEBBGdBDXdOCLCQdOCLCFdATH 4aBS1455b.W56 199804a296.6104a223.06 DAY22000aWisdom in Ancient Israel :bEssays in Honour of J.A. Emerton /cedited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson.  aFirst paperback edition 1998.  aCambridge ;aNew York :bCambridge University Press,c1998, ©1995.  axiii, 311 pages ;c23 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 289-299)-and indexes.0 apt. 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. 0aWisdom literaturexCriticism, interpretation, etc.1 aDay, John,d1948-1 aGordon, R. P.1 aWilliamson, H. G. M.q(Hugh Godfrey Maturin),d1947-