Author: McKay, Heather A. ; & Clines, David J. A.; editors:
Title: Of Prophets' Visions and the Wisdom of Sages: Essays in Honour of R. Norman Whybray on his Seventieth Birthday
Description: Sheffield [UK], Sheffield Academic Press, (1993). orig.boards. 23x15cm, 335 pp. Series: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series, 162.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 17 papers. Includes: Prophecy and society in Israel / Andrew D.H. Mayes -- Prophets, priests, diviners and sages in ancient Israel / Lester L. Grabbe -- From Mari to Moses: prophecy at Mari and in ancient Israel / Robert P. Gordon -- Prophecy - true and false -- Richard J. Coggins -- First and last in Isaiah / Hugh G. M. Williamson -- Mother Zion, father servant: a reading of Isaiah 49-55 / Knud Jeppesen -- Knowledge, humiliation or suffering: a lexical, textual and exegetical problem in Isaiah 53 / Anthony Gelston -- Metacommentating Amos / David J.A. Clines --Wisdom literature: retrospect and prospect / James L. Crenshaw -- Memory and encounter: an educaitonal ideal / John Eaton -- Some observations on the figurations of woman in wisdom literature / Athalya Brenner -- The good neighbour in the Book of Proverbs / Ronald E. Clements -- Psalm 37: conflict of interpretation / Walter Brueggeman --Intertextuality: allusion and vertical context systems in some Job passages / Tryggve N.D. Mettinger -- Judah and Tamar (Genesis 38) / J. Alberto Soggin -- Les milieux du Deutéronome / Henri Cazelles -- Ruth: a homily on Deuteronomy 22-25? / Michael D. Goulder.

Keywords: Old Testament Exegesis, Ancient Judaism, Pentateuch, Biblical Criticism, Bible, Prophecy Wisdom, Jewish Theology, Deuteronomy,