Many dimensions of Wisdom - often neglected or reduced to the formal - constitute a distinct perspective, a characteristic worldview, which biblical study has long overlooked. Wisdom's Many Faces r…
This volume examines the books of Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Canticles (Song of Songs), Ecclesiastes, and Esther. Previous form-critical work is carefully evaluated, and the result is a thorough-going fo…
In this book, five of the world's foremost scholars in the field reflect on the Wisdom traditions in Second Temple Judaism and earliest Christianity. Roland Murphy (late of Duke University) explore…
In this book we first hear the cool voice of a teacher calling us to think--to think hard and humbly. "How long will fools hate knowledge?" cries Wisdom in the book of Proverbs. Then in Job comes t…
In this book, Claus Westermann argues that Israel's early wisdom literature grew out of an oral tradition reflecting an agrarian setting. Dealing primarily with Proverbs 10-31, Westermann demonstra…
The wisdom tradition of ancient Israel...was both awed by the wonders of nature and concerned with human behavior, human accomplishment, and human misfortune... Although the sages maintained that c…