An Introduction to the Study of Wisdom Literature

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List of contents

Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 Wisdom Literature and its Foreign Counterparts

Chapter 2 The Book of Proverbs

Chapter 3 The Book of Job

Chapter 4 Ecclesiastes

Chapter 5 Other Jewish Wisdom Literature

Chapter 6 Wisdom Thought

Chapter 7 The Origins and Place of Wisdom Literature

Further Reading

Bibliography

About the author

Dr Stuart Weeks MA (Oxon.) MPhil DPhil, Senior Lecturer in Old Testament and Hebrew, Durham University, UK. He is the author of Early Israelite Wisdom (OUP, 1994) and Instructions & Imagery in Proverbs 1-9 (OUP, 2007). He is writing the ICC volume on Ecclesiastes for T&T Clark.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Weeks, Weeks Stuart
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2010
• EAN: 9780567135827
• ISBN: 978-0-567-13582-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: T & T Clark Approaches to Bibl; T&T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies; T & T Clark Approaches to Bibl
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, Christianity, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis