The Wisdom Literature

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Liturgical Press, 1990 - 199 Seiten

This volume presents the spiritualties, implicit or explicit, of the wisdom books of the Old Testament. An additional goal is to explore the vast and frequently overlooked resource that wisdom literature provides for contemporary believers.

 

Inhalt

Editors Preface
9
What is Wisdom?
23
How to Cope with Life
35
The Wisdom Woman
59
Job and the Collapse of Relationship
86
Qoheleth and the Ambiguity of Life
114
Sirach and Communion with God
134
The Wisdom of Solomon
160
Wisdom in the New Testament
185
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Autoren-Profil (1990)

Kathleen M. O'Connor is author of several books including The Wisdom Literature (Liturgical Press, 1990), Jeremiah: Pain and Promise, and Lamentations and the Tears of the World. She is the William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament, emerita, at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia, and also taught at the Maryknoll School of Theology in Ossining, New York. She is active in the Catholic Biblical Association of America and the Society of Biblical Literature.

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