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Using a simple workbook-style approach, Celia Sinclair combines commentary, study guides, maps, and charts to direct the reader through the Old Testament. The author has also included the latest scholarship in Old Testament studies. Written with a h...

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The Betrayal of God
Ideological Conflict in Job

By David Penchansky

In this book, David Penchansky examines the inconsistencies between Job's beliefs and his actions. Adapting the theories of neo-Marxist/postmodernist literary critics Fredric Jameson and Pierre Macherey, Penchansky traces ideological and theological ...

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The Book of Job (1985)
A Commentary

By Norman C. Habel

In this volume, Norman Habel takes on the humbling task of writing a commentary on such a classic work as the book of Job--a text that is complex and unclear at many points.The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of impo...

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Ecclesiastes (1987)
A Commentary

By James L. Crenshaw

This volume, a part of the Old Testament Library series, explores the book of Ecclesiastes.The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The...

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In Search of Wisdom
Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie

By LEO G. PERDUE, Bernard Brandon Scott, William Johnston Wiseman

This much-needed volume provides a comprehensive study of wisdom in the Hebrew Bible, in selected intertestamental and Rabbinic texts, and in the New Testament. An introductory essay summarizes the various meanings of wisdom in current research and o...

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Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age (1997)

By John J. Collins

Jewish wisdom flourished under Hellenism in the books of Ben Sira and the wisdom of Solomon, as well as in a recently discovered sapiential text from Qumran. In this book, now available as a casebound, internationally known author John Collins presen...

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Job

By James A. Wharton

Job is the quintessential study when it comes to questions of faith in the face of adversity and the universal human quest for meaning and order in a world that consistently mocks both. James Wharton concludes that the function of Job never has been ...

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Old Testament Wisdom, Third Edition
An Introduction

By James L. Crenshaw

For thirty years, James Crenshaw's Old Testament Wisdom has been the premier introduction to the wisdom books of the Old Testament. That tradition continues with this newly updated edition. This popular textbook introduces readers to the wisdom tradi...

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Proverbs (1999)
A Commentary

By Richard J. Clifford

Through translation, technical notes, and insightful commentary, Richard Clifford sheds new understanding on Proverbs. By focusing on the rhetoric of Proverbs, Clifford demonstrates how the book fosters a lifelong search for wisdom, and enables reade...

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs

By Ellen F. Davis

These books of the Bible, despite their differences, all treat the phenomenon of what it means to live wisely before God. In this readable commentary, Ellen Davis points out that the writers of these books considered wisdom--and the fruits of wisdom,...

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Roots of Wisdom
The Oldest Proverbs of Israel and Other Peoples

By Claus Westermann

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 demonstrates how the wisdom literature evolved into a form of ...

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Sage, Priest, Prophet
Religious and Intellectual Leadership in Ancient Israel

By Joseph Blenkinsopp

In this first volume of the Library of Ancient Israel series, Joseph Blenkinsopp investigates three forms of biblical Israel's intellectual and religious leadership: the sage, the priest, and the prophet. The people who occupied these roles were dire...

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Wisdom Literature
A Theological History

By LEO G. PERDUE

The Old Testament's wisdom literature offers one of the most intriguing collections of biblical books (Proverbs, Job, the Psalms about Torah and wisdom, Ecclesiastes, Qoheleth, Ben Sira, and the Wisdom of Solomon). In this magisterial textbook, preem...

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