Olyan, Saul M. <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780300182682 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Friends and associates<br/>Bible - Old Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>221.7  / O53-S26