Book contents
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Introduction (David G. Firth and Lindsay Wilson)
1. Old Testament wisdom today (Craig G. Bartholomew)
2. The book of Proverbs: some current issues (Ernest C. Lucas)
3. Job as a problematic book (Lindsay Wilson)
4. Reading Ecclesiastes with the scholars (Katharine J. Dell)
5. Seeking wisdom in the Song of Songs (Rosalind Clarke)
6. Is Ruth also among the wise? (Gregory Goswell)
7. Retribution and wisdom literature (Lennart Boström)
8. Worrying about the wise: wisdom in Old Testament narrative (David G. Firth)
9. Wisdom and biblical theology (Christopher B. Ansberry)
10. 'Children, listen to me': the voicing of wisdom in the Psalms (Simon P. Stocks)
11. 'Oh, that I knew where to find him': aspects of divine absence in Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes (Brittany N. Melton)
Index of authors
Index of Scripture references
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