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Israel's Wisdom Literature
Contributor(s): Bergant, Dianne Osa (Author), Laffey, Alice L. (Editor)
ISBN: 0800628756     ISBN-13: 9780800628758
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $24.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2000
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Annotation: Dianne Bergant offers a fresh approach to all the wisdom books of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Apocrypha. She concentrates on the final canonical form of each book and takes the "integrity of creation" as the basic interpretive perspective. This means, among other things, that the idea of the unity of humankind - indeed, the unity of all living things - lies at the heart of the approach.
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology - General
- Religion | Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General
Dewey: 223.06
LCCN: 97-203
Series: Liberation-Critical Reading of the Old Testament
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.06" W x 9.1" (0.76 lbs) 208 pages
Themes:
- Theometrics - Academic
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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Dianne Bergant offers a fresh approach to all the wisdom books of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Apocrypha: Job, selected psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, and Sirach. She concentrates on the final canonical from of each book and takes the integrity of creation as the basic interpretive perspective. This means, among other things, that the idea of the unity of humankind-indeed, the unity of all living things-lies at the heart of the approach.

Israel's Wisdom Literature is part of a four-volume set, A Liberation-Critical Reading of the Old Testament, edited by Alice L. Laffey. The Pentateuch (1988) is now available and volumes on Deuternomic history and the prophets will be forthcoming.