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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...

of Tyre (Ezek. 28:12–19). It would, however, be misleading to describe the story in Genesis simply as a myth. It is, rather, an excellent example of the ability of the sages to make learned use of mythological tradition for their own ends or, as Plato put it, to philosophize by means of myth. In other respects, too, the sapiential character of the narrative is apparent; suffice it to note the interest in ancient geography (the four rivers, 2:10–14) and the Man’s naming of the animals (2:19–20), an
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