Perspectives on Israelite wisdom : proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar / [print]
edited by John Jarick.
- London : Bloomsbury T and T Clark, [(c)2018.
- xxv, 494 pages ; 24 cm
- Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies .
Originally published: 2016.
PART I: ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF ISRAELITE WISDOM : The place and limits of wisdom revisted / Ethics in the wisdom literature of the Old Testament / 'Mother in Israel': Women and wisdom / Orality and the sage: A word (proverb) to the wise suffices / The nineteenth-century beginnings of 'Wisdom Literature', and its twenty-first-century end? / Stuart Weeks ; John Barton ; Jenni Williams ; Aulikki Nahkola ; Will Kynes PART II: THE WISDOM CORPUS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE : Literary and linguistic matters in the book of Proverbs/ 'The fear of the Lord in the beginning of wosdom':Calendars, divination and stories of terror / One or two things you may not know about the universe: The cosmology of the divine speeches in Job / The canonical taming of Job (Job 42: 1-6) / The rhetorical structure of Ecclesiastes / Is patristic exegesis good for biblical scholars? Jerome and Gregory of Nyssa on Qohelet / At play in potential space: Reading King Qohelet's building experiment with psychoanalytical spatial theory / Gary A. Rendsburg ; James E. Patrick ; David J. A. Clines ; Terje Stordalen ; John Jarick ; Jennie Grillo ; Mette Bundvad PART III: OTHER TEXTS IN RELATION TO WISDOM : '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 / Wisdom and the garden of Eden / The abscence of wisdom in the wilderness / Jeremiah, creation and wisdom / Handel's Nabal / Ben Sira's table manners and the social setting of his book / Ben Sira on friendship: Notes on intertextuality and method / Susan Gillingham ; The Song of Songs: A wisdom book / Edmee Kingsmill SLG ; John Day ; Philip Y. Yoo ; Katharine J. Dell ; Deborah W. Rooke ; James K. Aitken ; James E. Harding.
This collection of essays examines the wisdom traditions of the Old Testament from a variety of angels. Consideration is given to significant general issues in the study of Israelite wisdom, namely issues of ethics, gender, and orality in these traditions, as well as the place and limits of 'wisdom' and the slipperiness of the concept of 'wisdom literature'. Investigations are made of the three 'wisdom books' of the Hebrew Bible, with specific attention to literacy and linguistic matters in the book of Proverbs and to that book's use of the phrase "the fear of the Lord", to the divine speeches in the book of Job and to the main character's response to those speeches, and to several issues in the book of Ecclesiastes (the rhetorical structure of the book, its surprising patristic interpretation, and the role of the royal fiction within the book). Enquires are also devoted to a range of texts in conversation with wisdom perspectives, namely the Psalms, the Song of Songs, the Pentateuch, Jeremiah, the story of David and Nabal, and the deuterocanonical book of Ben Sira." - Back cover