Wisdom and Law in the Old Testament: The Ordering of Life in Israel and Early Judaism (Oxford Bible S.) - Softcover

Blenkinsopp, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192132539 ISBN 13: 9780192132536

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1983

Inhaltsangabe

Joseph Blenkinsopp analyses the so-called Wisdom Writings, especially the Book of Proverbs, and outlines the ethical teaching of the sages of Israel and the complex of ideas which supported it. He then goes on to show how dissonance between this theoretical framework and experience gave rise to grave religious problems concerning the nature of Israel's God and his relation with his people and considers how these problems were treated in the literature, especially in Job and Ecclesiastes. Tracing the development of Israel's legal tradition from its origins in the tribal structure, the author brings out the contacts between this tradition and the ethical teaching of the sages. Towards the end of the biblical period the synthesis of law and wisdom provided essential lines of continuity with the early Christian theology and rabbinic Judaism of the classical period.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1983
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0192132539
• ISBN 13: 9780192132536
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 174
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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