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Wisdom and Law in the Old Testament: The Ordering of Life in Israel and Early Judaism is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is a completely revised and expanded edition of a classic text. Drawing on recent work on legal and didactic material and including more literary interpretation, Blenkinsopp traces the course of two related key traditions—law and wisdom—throughout the history of Israel in the biblical period. He demonstrates their essential lines of continuity with classical Jewish thought and early...

Nor is this the only instance of affinity with the wisdom of the scribes. Two other compositions—Psalms. 49 and 78—are presented as proverbial discourse and riddle and deal, in different ways, with the mystery of evil and its consequences. Among psalms composed in the acrostic form—discussed briefly in the previous chapter—we also find this contrast between religious observance and impiety (e.g. Ps. 119). The frequent prayer for vengeance on the wicked, unpalatable as it may be to modern sensitivities,
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