Author: Leo G Perdue
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Keywords: und, literatur, religion, des, alten, testaments, neuen, zur, forschungen, seers, sages, sage, eastern, world, mediterranean, scribes
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3525530838
ISBN-13: 9783525530832

Interest in literature on wisdom derived from Israel and ancient Middle Eastern cultures has increased considerably in recent decades. Research findings from archaeological, theological, and cultural studies illustrate how sages decisively shaped the literature and language of a culture. Their influence extended to the arts, social and religious institutions, and the sciences. In ancient Israel and Judah, the Middle East , and in the Greco-Roman Empire, sages, similar to priests, prophets, and kings, made up their own social class. The essays in this volume examine this particular group of wis

Author: Leo G. Perdue
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pre
Keywords: teaching, preaching, commentary, bible, interpretation, proverbs
Number of Pages: 289
Published: 2000-07-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0804231168
ISBN-13: 9780804231169

Author: Jim M. Perdue
Publisher: State Bar of Texa
Keywords: jury, argument, plaintiff, treatise, victim, practical, speak
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 1989-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0938160540
ISBN-13: 9780938160540

Author: Joe Perdue
Publisher: Amer Hotel & Motel Assn
Keywords: management, club, contemporary
Number of Pages: 647
Published: 2007-01-15
List price: $92.95
ISBN-10: 0866122869
ISBN-13: 9780866122863

Author: Leo G. Perdue
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: blackwell, religion, companions, hebrew, companion, bible
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2001-12-05
List price: $188.95
ISBN-10: 0631210717
ISBN-13: 9780631210719

This comprehensive The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible offers a broad overview and survey of Old Testament study. It consists of newly commissioned articles from an impressive range of top international Old Testament scholars, from the UK, Europe, Israel, Canada and the US. Explores the history, archaeology, theology, sociology, and ancient Near Eastern context of the Hebrew Bible Addresses questions of methodology, interpretation, and the academic study of the Old Testament Features a useful introduction that provides an overview of the discipline, and a guide to t

Author: Leo G. Perdue
Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
Keywords: empires, wisdom, introduction, stylus, sword
Number of Pages: 502
Published: 2008-06-17
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0802862454
ISBN-13: 9780802862457

The all-too-frequent disregard of historical and social contexts by many wisdom scholars often leads to the distortion of this literature and transforms its teachings into abstract ideas lacking any incarnation in the social and historical world of human living. Leo Perdue here argues that the proper understanding of ancient wisdom literature requires one to move out of the realm of philosophical idealism into flesh-and-blood human history. Arguing that wisdom was international in practice and outlook, Perdue traces the interaction between both ruling and subject nations and their sages who p

Author: Leo G. Perdue
Publisher: Fortress Press
Keywords: theology, overtures, biblical, history, collapse, testament, reconstructing, old
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 080063716X
ISBN-13: 9780800637163