Perspectives on Israelite Wisdom Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Issues in the study of Israelite wisdom The place and limits of wisdom revisited .....3 Ethics in the Wisdom literature of the old Testament ........24 Mother in Israel : women and wisdom ......38 Orality and the sage : A word to the wise suffices ........56 The nineteenth - century beginning of Wisdom literature ........83 2. The wisdom corpus of the hebrew bible Literary and linguistic Matters in the book of Proverbs ..........111 The Fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom ......148 One or Two Things you may not Know about the universe.........172 The canonical Taming of Job......87 The Rhetorical Structure of Ecclesiastes ......208 Is patristic Exegesis good for biblical Scholarship........232 At play in Potential Space .............254 3. Other Texts in Relation to wisdom I will incline my ear to a Proverb.............277 The song of Songs: A wisdom book ......310 Wisdom and the garden of Eden ..............336 The absence of Wisdom in the Wilderness...........353 Jeremiah , creation and wisdom ...............375 Handel`s Nabal ..........391 Ben Sira`s Table manners and the social settings of his Book ...........418 Ben Sira on Friendship........439