Wisdom & Creation: The Theology of Wisdom Literature (1994 Perdue), book

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Wisdom & Creation: The Theology of Wisdom Literature (1994) is a book by Leo G. Perdue.

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Editions

Published in Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1994.

Contents

Part 1. Wisdom and Old Testament theology: issues and approaches. Where shall wisdom be found? Old Testament theology and wisdom literature -- "Come to me, those who are unlearned, and lodge in my school": imagination, rhetoric, and social location in wisdom literature -- Part 2. The theology of wisdom literature. "The Lord created me at the beginning of His work": creation and moral discourse in Proverbs -- "You have not spoken rightly about me": the book of Job and the imagining of God in human torment -- "I will make a test of pleasure": the tyranny of God and Qoheleth's quest for the good -- "I covered the earth like a mist": cosmos and history in Ben Sira -- "Wisdom, the artificer of all, instructed me": creation and redemption in the wisdom of Solomon -- Part 3. Wisdom theology, sapiential imagination, and metaphor. "Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn her seven pillars:" summary and conclusions.

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