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Exploring Old Testament Wisdom: Literature and Themes is unavailable, but you can change that!

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.

but would provide the ethical principles for discovery of that liminality. Literary scholars often show a refreshing freedom to go where biblical scholars fear to tread. Thus, the well-known Canadian literary scholar Northrop Frye argues, ‘The conception of wisdom in the Bible, as we see most clearly in some of the psalms, starts with the individualizing of the law, with allowing the law, in its human and moral aspect, to permeate and inform all one’s personal life.’[92] If this is even close to
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