Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton Day, John 1948- Gordon, R. P. Williamson, H. G. M. (Hugh Godfrey Maturin) 1947- text bibliography enk Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press 1998, ©1995 1998 First paperback edition 1998. monographic eng

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xiii, 311 pages ; 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. Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-299)-and indexes. Wisdom literature Criticism, interpretation, etc BS1455 .W56 1998 296.61 223.06 DAY 0521624894 (paperback) 9780521624893 (paperback) 052142013X 9780521420136 MNG 980518 20240208130719.0 39138818 eng