Theology - Bible Studies, Religious Literature - General, Christianity - General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous Ancient Literature - Literary Criticism
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Overview
"A stitch in time saves nine." Proverbial wisdom occurs in all cultures in every age, and we are inclined to identify it through forms only - proverb, parable, riddle. But Wisdom literature - in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, in the ancient world before them, in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in Gnosticism, in other sapiential composition up to the Reader's Digest in our day - has many faces: human, social, cosmic, religious, traditional, theological, and more. These many dimensions of Wisdom - often neglected or reduced to the formal - constitute a distinct perspective, a characteristic worldview, which biblical study has long overlooked. Wisdom's Many Faces redresses the imbalance and explores the multifaceted approach to reality that we find in this fascinating literature, biblical and extrabiblical.Book Details
Published
January 1, 1996
Publisher
Michael Glazier Inc
Pages
121
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780814655153