General Sources on

Wisdom

Updated July 17, 2002

Barton, Stephen c., ed. Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Wisdom in the Bible, the Church and the Contemporary World. Herndon, Virginia: T. and T. Clark, 1998.

Berry, Donald K. An Introduction to Wisdom and Poetry of the Old Testament. Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 19--.

Blenkinsopp, Joseph. Wisdom and Law in the Old Testament: The Ordering of Life in Israel and Early Judaism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Brenner, Athalya, and Carol Fontaine, eds. Wisdom and Psalms. The Feminist Companion to the Bible (Second Series), 2. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.

Brueggemann, Walter. In Man We Trust. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1972.

Ceresko, Anthony R. Introduction to Old Testament Wisdom: A Spirituality for Liberation. Maryknoll: Orbis, 19--.

Clifford, Richard J. The Wisdom Literature. Nashville: Abingdon, 1998.

Collins, John J. Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age. Old Testament Library. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1998.

Crenshaw, James L. Education in Ancient Israel - Across the Deadening Silence. ABRL. New York/London: Doubleday, 1998.

Crenshaw, James L. Old Testament Wisdom: An Introduction. Rev. ed. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1998.

Gammie, John G. Sage in Israel and the Ancient Near East. Eisenbrauns, 19--.

Gammie, John G.; Walter A. Brueggemann; W. Lee Humphreys; and James M. Ward. Israelite Wisdom. Missoula, Montana: Scholars, 1978.

Heaton, E. W. The School Tradition of the Old Testament. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Herinisson, Hans-Jürgen. Studien zu Prophetie und Weisheit: Gesammelte Aufsätze. Ed. Jörg Barthel, Hannelore Jauss, and Klaus Koenen, FAT 23. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1998.

Hill, R. Charles. Wisdom's Many Faces. Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 19--.

Kalmin, Richard. The Sage in Jewish Society of Late Antiquity. London/New York: Routledge, 1999. 

Kidner, Derek. The Wisdom of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes. InterVarsity, 19--.

Murphy, Roland E. Wisdom Literature and Psalms. Interpreting Biblical Texts. Nashville: Abingdon, 1983.

Murphy, Roland E. Wisdom Literature: Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Canticles, Ecclesiastes and Esther. Forms of the Old Testament Literature. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 19--.

O'Connor, Kathleen M. The Wisdom Literature. Message of Biblical Spirituality. Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Pres, 19--.

Purdue, Leo G. Wisdom and Creation: The Theology of Wisdom Literature. Nashville: Abingdon, 1994.

von Rad, Gerhard. Wisdom in Israel. Nashville: Abingdon, 1972.

Schroer, Silvia. Wisdom Has Built Her House: Studies on the Figure of Sophia in the Bible. Translated by Linda Maloney and William McDonough. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical, 2000.

Weeks, Stuart. Early Israelite Wisdom. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994.

Westermann, Claus. Roots of Wisdom: The Oldest Proverbs of Israel and Other Peoples. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1994.

Williams, Michael E., ed. Old Testament Wisdom. The Storyteller's Companion to the Bible. Nashville: Abingdon, 1994.

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