David G. Firth is Old Testament Tutor and Head of Research at St John's College, Nottingham. Lindsay Wilson is Academic Dean and Senior Lecturer in Old Testament at Ridley Melbourne Mission and Ministry College, Australia.

This volume surveys recent developments in the study of Old Testament wisdom; discusses issues that have arisen in Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes; examines the Song of Songs, Ruth and some Psalms as wisdom texts; and explores wisdom and biblical theology, the concept of retribution, and the issue of divine absence.

New collection of studies of Old Testament wisdom literature

David G Firth;Lindsay Wilson

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INTRODUCTION

David G. Firth and Lindsay Wilson

PART 1:

THE STUDY OF WISDOM TODAY

1. OLD TESTAMENT WISDOM TODAY

Craig G. Bartholomew

PART 2:

THE WISDOM LITERATURE

2. THE BOOK OF PROVERBS: SOME CURRENT ISSUES

Ernest C. Lucas

3. JOB AS A PROBLEMATIC BOOK

Lindsay Wilson

4. READING ECCLESIASTES WITH THE SCHOLARS

Katharine J. Dell

5. SEEKING WISDOM IN THE SONG OF SONGS

Rosalind Clarke

PART 3:

THEMES

6. IS RUTH ALSO AMONG THE WISE?

Gregory Goswell

7. RETRIBUTION AND WISDOM LITERATURE

Lennart Boström

8. WORRYING ABOUT THE WISE: WISDOM IN OLD TESTAMENT NARRATIVE

David G. Firth

9. WISDOM AND BIBLICAL THEOLOGY

Christopher B. Ansberry

10. ‘CHILDREN, LISTEN TO ME’: THE VOICING OF WISDOM IN THE PSALMS

Simon P. Stocks

11. ‘OH, THAT I KNEW WHERE I MIGHT FIND HIM’: ASPECTS OF DIVINE ABSENCE IN PROVERBS, JOB AND ECCLESIASTES

Brittany N. Melton

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