Poets, prophets, and sages : essays in Biblical interpretation

Author(s)

• Gordis, Robert

Bibliographic Information

Poets, prophets, and sages : essays in Biblical interpretation

Indiana University Press, 1971

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

• The Bible: its origin, growth, and meaning
• Primitive democracy in ancient Israel
• The structure of Biblical poetry
• The heptad as an element of Biblical and rabbinic style
• Quotations in Biblical, oriental, and rabbinic literature
• The social background of wisdom literature
• The knowledge of good and evil in the Old Testament and the Dead Sea scrolls
• The composition and structure of Amos
• Hosea's marriage and message
• Isaiah: prophet, thinker, world statesman
• Micah's vision of the end-time
• All men's book: the book of Job
• The temptation of Job
• The wisdom of Koheleth
• The Song of songs

• NCID: BA3071834X
• ISBN:
  • 0253166551
• LCCN: 79098984
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bloomington
• Pages/Volumes: x, 436 p
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BS1192
  • DC : 221
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Bible. O.T