The Oxford handbook of the Writings of the Hebrew Bible /edited by Donn F. Morgan.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Aspects of Jewish Reception of the Ketuvim (Writings) / Alan Cooper -- The Writings in the Hellenistic and Roman Period / Timothy H. Lim -- The Wisdom of Desire in the Song of Songs / Carey Walsh -- Reimagining Community Past and Present in Ezra and Nehemiah / Melody D. Knowles -- Chronicles and the Writings / John C. Endres -- Reading Daniel as Part of the Writings / Ralph W. Klein -- Writings in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Nascent Judaism: The Writings and the History of Religions / Jon L. Berquist -- Ancient Near Eastern Religions and the Writings / Daniel C. Snell -- Moving Texts: The Writings in Western Music and Visual Arts / Roger Ferlo -- The Writings in the Christian Bible / Mark W. Elliott -- Esther's Frame within the Writings / Timothy J. Stone -- Lamentations and Canon: Conversations in the Dark / Scott Ellington -- Cultic Traditions in the Writings: Priests and Levites in the Post-Exilic Period / Mark A. Leuchter -- Apocalyptic Visions and Revisions of the End in the Writings / Bennie H. Reynolds III -- Post-Exilic Prose Traditions in the Writings: Novella Writers, Story Tellers, and History Writers / Thomas M. Bolin -- The Book of Job in the Context of the Writings / Katharine J. Dell -- Reading Psalms Sapientially in the Writings / William P. Brown -- Studying The Writings As Post-Exilic Literature and Canon / Donn F. Morgan -- Post-Exilic Poetic Traditions in the Writings / S. E. Gillingham -- The Divine Human Encounter in the Hebrew Wisdom of the Writings and the Confucian Analects / Archie Chi-Chung Lee -- The Writings and Canon: Enduring Issues and Legacy / Donn F. Morgan -- The Canonical Shape and Function of the Writings / Timothy J. Stone -- Qoheleth in the Writings / Erhard S. Gerstenberger -- Ruth: A Reading of Scripture? / A. Graeme Auld -- The Reception of the Writings and their place in the Biblical Canon / Lee Martin McDonald -- Reading Proverbs as a Book in the Writings / Julius Steinberg -- Archeology of the Post-Exilic Period and the Writings / Benjamin D. Gordon -- Wisdom Traditions and the Writings: Sage and Scribe / James L. Crenshaw -- The Early Post-Exilic Period in the Writings (Cyrus through Ezra-Nehemiah) / Lester L. Grabbe.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the Writings, the third division of the Hebrew Bible canon, from historical, literary, and canonical perspectives through the contributions of twenty-eight scholars. Included is the postexilic period of ancient Israel when most of the Writings were either written or collected, examining its major events, literary traditions, and archeology; each book of the Writings is explored from different perspectives (literary, historical, theological, sociological, ideological, et cetera); a concluding section examining the Writings from the perspectives of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Ancient Near East, Asian religions, the history of Israelite religion and canon formation, scripture, and the reception history of this literature in music and the visual arts, Judaism, and Christianity. Each chapter concludes with a bibliography for future research and study.

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