TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blenkinsopp, Joseph
AU  - Blenkinsopp,Joseph
TI  - Wisdom and Law in the Old Testament:  The Ordering of Life in Israel and Early Judaism
SN  - 9780198755036
U1  - B67.2 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. Sages, Scribes, and Counsellors .................1  The Writings: The Third section of the Hebrew bible ............1  The many faces of Wisdom .........5  The professional Sage.........9  Education in Israel .....12  2. Education for life .........18  Proverbs: the book ........18  The proverb......20  The religious dimension ...........24  The ethic of the Sages ......29  The instruction ......31  Acrostics, Numerical Sayings, Riddles..........35  Sapiential Narrative .......39  3. God and the Moral Order ...............46  The link between act and consequence ...........46  Political Disaster and Religious crisis .......51  Job ...........57  Qoheleth ...68  The problem remains .........79  4. The growth of Israel`s Legal Tradition ....84  Ordering life by law..........84  The covenant Code: Exodus 20: 23-23: 19..........94  The Decalogue ......102  The Second Law: Deuteronomy, Religious proramme, and civil Constitution ........107  5. Law in early judaism : Temple Community and sect ......120  The priestly history ..........120  Cultic and Ritual Laws ................126  Wisdom and law in the chronicler`s work .........133  Law and legal Exposition in Jewish sectarianism ..........140  6. Theological Wisdom ......151  The confluence of Wisdom and law .........151  Job 28: inaccessible wisdom .............153  Proverbs 8: 22-31: Wisdom, first -born of creation ..........157  Ecclesiasticus 24: 1-29: Torah assimilated to wisdom ..........162  The wisdom of Solomon: towards a new synthesis .....167  Apocalyptic Wisdom .....173  wisdom in transition : some further developments ........179
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