Wisdom and Law in the Old Testament
The Ordering of Life in Israel and Early Judaism
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:3rd Aug '95
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- Paperback£60.00(9780198755043)
This new edition has been considerably expanded to take in work on the legal and didactic material published since the 1980s. It gives more attention to the different literary genres used by Israel's sages and to the social settings in which the material came into existence and circulated. References to relevant archaeological data have also been brought up to date. The main purpose of the book, however, remains the same: to trace the course of two related key streams of tradition, law and wisdom, throughout the history of Israel in the biblical period, and to demonstrate their essential lines of continuity with classical Jewish thought and early Christian theology.
a valuable work for the reader who wishes to take a broader view * Theology *
This study belongs to a biblical series which is devoted to groups of books rather than single books. It describes quite fully the contents of the wisdom and legal portions of the Old Testament and early Jewish literature ... Especially valuable is the treatment of this coming together in early Judaism, so important for a proper appreciation of New Testament polemic. * John C L Gibson, Edinburgh University, tbr Vol. 8, No. 2, February 1996 *
ISBN: 9780198755036
Dimensions: 201mm x 136mm x 17mm
Weight: 318g
208 pages
2nd Revised edition