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Exploring Old Testament Wisdom : Literature and Themes.

✍ Scribed by David Firth


Publisher
SPCK
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Leaves
199
Category
Library

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✦ Table of Contents


CONTRIBUTORS
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
David G. Firth and Lindsay Wilson
PART 1:
THE STUDY OF WISDOM TODAY
1. OLD TESTAMENT WISDOM TODAY
Craig G. Bartholomew
PART 2:
THE WISDOM LITERATURE
2. THE BOOK OF PROVERBS: SOME CURRENT ISSUES
Ernest C. Lucas
3. JOB AS A PROBLEMATIC BOOK
Lindsay Wilson
4. READING ECCLESIASTES WITH THE SCHOLARS
Katharine J. Dell
5. SEEKING WISDOM IN THE SONG OF SONGS
Rosalind Clarke
PART 3:
THEMES
6. IS RUTH ALSO AMONG THE WISE?
Gregory Goswell
7. RETRIBUTION AND WISDOM LITERATURE
Lennart Boström 8. WORRYING ABOUT THE WISE: WISDOM IN OLD TESTAMENT NARRATIVEDavid G. Firth
9. WISDOM AND BIBLICAL THEOLOGY
Christopher B. Ansberry
10. 'CHILDREN, LISTEN TO ME': THE VOICING OF WISDOM IN THE PSALMS
Simon P. Stocks
11. 'OH, THAT I KNEW WHERE I MIGHT FIND HIM': ASPECTS OF DIVINE ABSENCE IN PROVERBS, JOB AND ECCLESIASTES
Brittany N. Melton
SEARCH NAMES FOR AUTHORS
SEARCH ITEMS FOR SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
Notes


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