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Wisdom literature in Mesopotamia and Israel / edited by Richard J. Clifford.
- Title
- Wisdom literature in Mesopotamia and Israel / edited by Richard J. Clifford.
- Publication
- Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Clifford, Richard J.
- Description
- xiii, 116 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 36
- Uniform Title
- Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 36.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The context of wisdom in Mesopotamia. The social and intellectual setting of Babylonian wisdom literature / Paul-Alain Beaulieu. Why wisdom became a secret : on wisdom as a written genre / Karel van der Toorn -- Studies in Babylonian wisdom texts. An allusion to the Šamaš hymn in the Dialogue of pessimism / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz. The wisdom of Šūpê-amēlī--a deathbed debate between a father and son / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz -- Comparisons of Mesopotamian and biblical texts and motifs. Sages with a sense of humor : the Babylonian Dialogue between the master and his servant and the Book of Qoheleth / Edward L. Greenstein. Cosmos, temple, house : building and wisdom in Mesopotamia and Israel / Raymond C. Van Leeuwen -- Biblical wisdom literature. Beginnings, endings, and life's necessities in biblical wisdom / James L. Crenshaw.
- ISBN
- 9781589832190 (paper binding : alk. paper)
- 1589832191 (paper binding : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007024579
- OCLC
- 144769557
- SCSB-11780166
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library