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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=zKykx-9zf9EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Tree+of+Life:+An+Exploration+of+Biblical+Wisdom+Literature&ei=seGfS8eaOoTuNO6LrJYM&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false Google Books (partial text)]
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The Tree of Life: An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature (1990) is a book by Roland E. Murphy.

Abstract

Editions and translations

Published in New York, NY: Doubleday, 1990. 2nd and 3rd ed. in Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1996, and 2002.

Table of contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Proverbs: the wisdom of words
  • 3. Job the steadfast
  • 4. Qoheleth the skeptic?
  • 5. Ben Sira: wisdom's traditionalist
  • 6. The wisdom of Solomon: a view from the Diaspora
  • 7. Wisdom's echoes
  • 8. Wisdom literature and theology
  • 9. Lady Wisdom

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