Wisdom and law in the Old Testament : the ordering of life in Israel and early Judaism /
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1990.
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| Series: | Oxford Bible series
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Sages, scribes, and counsellors
- The writings
- The many faces of wisdom
- The professional sage
- Education in Israel
- Part 2: Education for life
- Proverbs: the book
- The proverb
- The religious dimension
- The ethic of the sages
- The instruction
- Other genres
- Sapiential narrative
- Part 3: God and the moral order
- The link between act and consequence
- Political disaster and religious crisis
- Job
- Qoheleth
- The problem remains
- Part 4: The growth of Israel's legal tradition
- Ordering life by law
- Law in early Israel
- The covenant code
- The ten commandments
- Deuteronomy: the watershed
- Part 5: Law in early Judaism: temple community and sect
- The priestly source (P)
- Cultic and ritual laws
- Law and order in the Chronicler's work
- Law and legal exposition in the sects
- Part 6: Theological wisdom
- The confluence of wisdom and law
- Job 28: inaccessible wisdom
- Proverbs 22-31: wisdom, firstborn of creation
- Ecclus. 24:1-29: Torah assimilated to wisdom
- The wisdom of Solomon: towards a new synthesis
- Daniel: apocalyptic wisdom
- Wisdom in transition: some later developments.