Friendship in the Hebrew Bible </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Olyan, Saul M.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">6:0</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Yale University Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2017</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>191tr.</extent> <extent>hardcover</extent> <extent>24 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>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</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Saul M. Olyan</note> <subject> <topic>Friends and associates</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Bible - Old Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">221.7</classification> <classification authority="ddc">O53-S26</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780300182682</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14713/935948214-140.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14713/935948214-140.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071409.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>