Perspectives on Israelite Wisdom

This collection of essays examines the wisdom traditions of the Old Testament from a variety of angles. The slipperiness of the concept of 'wisdom literature' the transmission of 'wise' advice for living rabbinic and patristic approaches to the Bible's wisdom traditions and cutting-edge modern perspectives on such Old Testament books as Proverbs Job and Ecclesiastes are all to be found here.<br/><br/>In the tradition of the renowned previous volumes from the Oxford Old Testament Seminar - <i>King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East</i> (1998) <i>In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel </i>(2004) <i>Temple and Worship in Biblical Israel</i> (2005) and <i>Prophecy and Prophets in Ancient Israel</i> (2010)-this new volume again brings the scholarship of the Oxford Seminar here focused on the rich subject of Old Testament wisdom traditions to an international readership.