Friendship in the Hebrew Bible
Olyan, Saul M.
Friendship in the Hebrew Bible Saul M. Olyan - U.S.A Yale University Press 2017 - 191tr. hardcover 24 cm - The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library .
Friendship, though a topic of considerable humanistic and cross disciplinary interest in contemporary scholarship, has been largely ignored by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, possibly because of its complexity and elusiveness. Filling a significant gap in our knowledge and understanding of biblical texts, Saul M. Olyan provides this original, accessible analysis of a key form of social relationship. In this thorough and compelling assessment, Olyan analyzes a wide range of texts, including prose narratives, prophetic materials, psalms, pre-Hellenistic wisdom collections, and the Hellenistic-era wisdom book Ben Sira. This in-depth, contextually sensitive, and theoretically engaged study explores how the expectations of friends and family members overlap and differ, examining, among other things, characteristics that make the friend a distinct social actor
9780300182682
Friends and associates
Bible - Old Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc
221.7 / O53-S26
Friendship in the Hebrew Bible Saul M. Olyan - U.S.A Yale University Press 2017 - 191tr. hardcover 24 cm - The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library .
Friendship, though a topic of considerable humanistic and cross disciplinary interest in contemporary scholarship, has been largely ignored by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, possibly because of its complexity and elusiveness. Filling a significant gap in our knowledge and understanding of biblical texts, Saul M. Olyan provides this original, accessible analysis of a key form of social relationship. In this thorough and compelling assessment, Olyan analyzes a wide range of texts, including prose narratives, prophetic materials, psalms, pre-Hellenistic wisdom collections, and the Hellenistic-era wisdom book Ben Sira. This in-depth, contextually sensitive, and theoretically engaged study explores how the expectations of friends and family members overlap and differ, examining, among other things, characteristics that make the friend a distinct social actor
9780300182682
Friends and associates
Bible - Old Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc
221.7 / O53-S26