Poetry: Alter, Robert. The Art of Biblical · PDF fileMack, Burton L. “Wisdom Myth and Mythology : An Essay in Understanding a Theological Tradition..” Interpretation 24, no. 1

Poetry:Alter, Robert. The Art of Biblical Poetry. Basic Books, 1987.

Barré, Michael L. “"Terminative" Terms in Hebrew Acrostics.” Pages 207-215 in Wisdom, You are My Sister: Essays in Honor of Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Biblical Association, 1997.

Berlin, Adele. The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism. Revised & Expanded. The Biblical Resource Series. Grand Rapids, MI.: Eerdmans/Dove Books , 2008.

---. “Introduction to Hebrew Poetry.” Pages 301-316 in . The New Interpreter's Bible. Nashville, TN.: Abingdon Press, 1997.

Dion, Paul E. Hebrew Poetics. 2nd ed. Mississauga, Ontario: Benben Publications, 1992.

Gevirtz, Stanley. Patterns of Early Poetry of Israel. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization. Chicago, IL.: University Of Chicago Press, 1973.

Kugel, James L. The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History. New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press, 1981.

Introductions to Wisdom LiteratureAlter, Robert. “The poetic and wisdom books.” Pages 226-240 in The Cambridge Companion to

Biblical Interpretation. Edited by John Barton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Clifford, Richard J. “Introduction to Wisdom Literature.” Pages 1-16 in . The New Interpreter's Bible. Nashville, TN.: Abingdon Press, 1997.

---. The Wisdom Literature. Interpreting Biblical Texts. Nashville, TN.: Abingdon Press, 1998.

Collins, John J. Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age. Old Testament Library. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997.

Crenshaw, James L. Old Testament Wisdom: An Introduction. Rev Sub. Westminster John Knox Press, 1998.

Kidner, Derek. The Wisdom of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes: An Introduction to Wisdom Literature. Downers Grove, IL.: InterVarsity Press, 1985.

Lucas, Ernest C. Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Psalms & Wisdom Literature. Exploring the Bible. InterVarsity Press, 2004.

Murphy, Roland E. The Tree of Life: An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002.

Perdue, Leo G. The Sword and The Stylus: An Introduction to Wisdom in the Age of Empires. Grand Rapids, MI.: W.B. Eerdmans, 2008.

---. Wisdom Literature: A Theological History. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007.

Wisdom Bibliography created by Adam Couturier. Updated March. 1, 2011

Scott, R.B.Y. “Study of the Wisdom Literature.” Interpretation 24, no. 1 (January 1970): 20-45.

von Rad, Gerhard. Wisdom in Israel. Translated by James D. Martin. Trinity Press International, 1993.

General Wisdom Adams, Samuel L. Wisdom in Transition: Act and Consequence in Second Temple Instructions.

Edited by John J. Collins. Vol. 125. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2008.

Albright, William Foxwell. “The Goddess of Life and Wisdom.” The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 36, no. 4 (July 1920): 258-294.

Blocher, Henri. “The Fear of the LORD as the "Principle" of Wisdom.” Tyndale Bulletin 28 (1977): 3-28.

Brenner, Athalya. “Some Observations on the Figurations of Woman in Wisdom Literature.” Pages 192-208 in Of Prophets' Visions and the Wisdom of Sages: Essays in Honour of R. Norman Whybray on his Seventieth Birthday. Edited by Heather A. McKay and David J.A. Clines. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplemental Series. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993.

Brown, William P. Character in Crisis: A Fresh Approach to the Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996.

Burdett, David. “Wisdom Literature and the Promise Doctrine.” Trinity Journal 3 (Spring 1974): 1-13.

Camp, Claudia V. Wise, Strange and Holy: The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible ( 320). Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series; Gender, Culture, Theory, 9. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.

Cathcart, Kevin J. “The Trees, The Beasts and The Birds: Fables, Parables and Allegories in the Old Testament.” Pages 212-221 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Crainshaw, Jill Y. “Embodied Remembering: Wisdom, Character, and Worship.” Pages 363-388 in Character & Scripture: Moral Formation, Community, and Biblical Interpretation. Edited by William P. Brown. Grand Rapids, MI.: Eerdmans, 2002.

Clements, Ronald E. “Solomon and the Origins of Wisdom in Israel.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 15 (April 1988): 23-35.

---. Wisdom In Theology. The Didsbury Lectures. Grand Rapids, MI.: Eerdmans, 1992.

--. “Wisdom and Old Testament Theology.” Pages 269-286 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.


Clifford, Richard J. The Book of Proverbs and Our Search for Wisdom. The Pere Marquette Lecture In Theology. Milwaukee, WI.: Marquette University Press, 1995.

Collins, John J. “Wisdom and Apocalypticism, and Generic Compatibility.” Pages 165-186 in In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. Edited by Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott, and William Johnston Wiseman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

Crenshaw, James L. “The Concept of God in Old Testament Wisdom.” Pages 1-18 in In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. Edited by Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott, and William Johnston Wiseman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

---. “Wisdom Literature: Biblical Books.” Pages 1-13 in Urgent Advice and Probing Questions: Collected Writings on Old Testament Wisdom. Macon, GA.: Mercer University Press, 1995.

---. “Beginnings, Endings, and Life's Necessities in Biblical Wisdom.” Pages 93-106 in Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel. Edited by Richard J. Clifford. Symposium. Atlanta, GA.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Curtis, Edward M. “Old Testament Wisdom: A Model for Faith-Learning Integration.” Christian Scholars Review 15, no. 3 (1986): 213-217.

Edelman, Diana. “The Iconography of Wisdom.” Pages 149-153 in Essays on Ancient Israel in Its Near Eastern Context. Edited by Yaira Amit and Nadav Naʼaman. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2006.

Fontaine, Carole R. “The Proof of the Pudding: Proverbs and Gender in the Performance Arena.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 29, no. 2 (2004): 179-204.

Fox, Michael V. “'Love' in the Love Songs.” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 1967 (1981): 181-182.

---. “Love, Passion, and Perception in Israelite and Egyptian Love Poetry.” Journal of Biblical Literature 102, no. 2 (June 1983): 219-228.

Greenspoon, Leonard. “Translating Biblical Words of Wisdom into the Modern World.” Pages 389-406 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kevin G. Friebel, and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Hadley, Judith M. “Wisdom and the Goddess.” Pages 234-243 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Houston, James M. “The "Double Knowledge" as the Way of Wisdom.” Pages 308-326 in The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Jacobson, Diane. “What is Wisdom? Who is She?.” Word and World 7, no. 3 (1987): 241-244.

Jobes, Karen. “Sophia Christology: The Way of Wisdom?.” Pages 226-250 in The Way of


Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Mack, Burton L. “Wisdom Myth and Mythology : An Essay in Understanding a Theological Tradition..” Interpretation 24, no. 1 (January 1970): 46-60.

Martins, Elmer A. “The Way of Wisdom: Conflict Resolution in Biblical Narrative.” Pages 75-90 in The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Murphy, Roland E. “The Personification of Wisdom.” Pages 222-233 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

--. “Wisdom and Creation.” Journal of Biblical Literature 104, no. 1 (1985): 3-11.

-- “Wisdom and Yahwism Revisited.” Pages 191-200 in Shall Not the Judge of All the Earth Do What Is Right?: Studies On the Nature of God in Tribute to James L. Crenshaw. Edited by David Penchansky and Paul L. Redditt. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2000.

Nicole, Roger R. “The Wisdom of Marriage.” Pages 280-296 in The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Packer, J.I. “Theology and Wisdom.” The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Perdue, Leo G. Wisdom & Creation: The Theology of Wisdom Literature. Nashville, TN.: Abingdon Press, 1994.

---. Wisdom and Cult: A Critical Analysis of the Views of Cult in Wisdom Literatures of Israel and Near East. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series. Missoula, MT.: Scholars Press, 1977.

--- “Revelation and the Problem of the Hidden God in Second Temple Wisdom Literature.” Pages 201-222 in Shall Not the Judge of All the Earth Do What Is Right?: Studies On the Nature of God in Tribute to James L. Crenshaw. Edited by David Penchansky and Paul L. Redditt. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2000.

Rankin, Oliver Shaw. Israel's Wisdom Literature: Its Bearing on Theology and the History of Religion. Schocken Edition. New York, NY.: Schocken, 1969.

Sandoval, Timothy J. “Wisdom, Desire, Virtue and Wealth.” Convocation Address, Chicago Theological Seminary, 2004.

Sinnott, Alice M. The Personification Of Wisdom . Society for Old Testament Study Monographs. Burlington, VT.: Ashgate Publishing, 2005.

Smalley, Beryl. Medieval Exegesis of Wisdom Literature: Essays by Beryl Smalley. Edited by Roland E. Murphy. Reprints and Translations Series. Atlanta, GA.: Scholars Press, 1986.

Smend, Rudolf. “The Interpretation of Wisdom in Nineteenth-Century Scholarship.” Pages 257-268 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day,


Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

van Leeuwen, Raymond C. “Building God's House: An Exploration in Wisdom.” Pages 204-211 in The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

--- “Cosmos, Temple, House: Building and Wisdom in Mesopotamia and Israel.” Pages 67-92 in Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel. Edited by Richard J. Clifford. Symposium. Atlanta, GA.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Weinfeld, Moshe. “Origin of the Humanism in Deuteronomy.” Journal of Biblical Literature 80, no. 3 (September 1961): 241-247.

Westermann, Claus. Roots of Wisdom: The Oldest Proverbs of Israel and Other Peoples. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995.

Wilson, Jonathan R. “Biblical Wisdom, Spiritual Formation, and the Virtues.” Pages 297-307 in The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Youngblood, Ronald. “The Fall of Lucifer (in More Ways than One).” Pages 168-179 in The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

International WisdomSources for Primary Texts:

Alster, Bendt. Proverbs of Ancient Sumer: The Worlds Earliest Proverb Collections . 2 vols. Bethesda, MD.: CDL Press, 1997.

Hurowitz, Victor Avigdor. “The Wisdom of Supe-ameli — A Deathbed Debate between a Father and Son.” Pages 37-54 in Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel. Edited by Richard J. Clifford. Symposium. Atlanta, GA.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

---. “An Allusion to the Samas Hymn in The Dialogue of Pessimism.” Pages 33-36 in Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel. Edited by Richard J. Clifford. Symposium. Atlanta, GA.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Lichtheim, Miriam. Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms. 2nd ed. Berkley, CA. : University of California Press, 2006.

---. Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume II: The New Kingdom. 2nd ed. Berkley, CA. : University of California Press, 2006.

---. Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume III: The Late Period. 2nd ed. Berkley, CA. : University of California Press, 2006.

Pritchard, James Bennett, ed. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement. 3rd ed. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1969.

Pritchard, James Bennett, ed. The Ancient Near East (Volume I): An Anthology of Texts and


Pictures. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1973.

Pritchard, James Bennett, ed. The Ancient Near East (Volume II): A New Anthology of Texts and Pictures. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1976.

Matthews, Victor H., and Don C. Benjamin, eds. Old Testament Parallels: Laws And Stories from the Ancient Near East. 3rd ed. Paulist Press, 2007.

Secondary Sources Relating to International Wisdom (Including DSS):Clifford, Richard J., ed. Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel. Symposium. Atlanta,

GA.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Denning-Bolle, Sara J. “Wisdom and Dialogue in the Ancient near East.” Numen 34, no. Fasc. 2 (December 1987): 214-234.

Foster, Benjamin. “Gilgamesh: Sex, Love and the Ascent of Knowledge.” Pages 21-42 in Love & Death in the Ancient Near East: Essays in Honor of Marvin H. Pope. Edited by John H. Marks and Robert M. Good. Guilford, CT.: Four Quarters Publishing Company, 1987.

Fox, Michael V. “Egyptian Onomastica and Biblical Wisdom..” Vetus Testamentum 36, no. 3 (July 1986): 302-310.

-- “Love, Passion, and Perception in Israelite and Egyptian Love Poetry.” Journal of Biblical Literature 102, no. 2 (June 1983): 219-228.

-- “World Order and Ma at: A Crooked Parallel..” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies 23 (1995): 37-48.

Goff, Matthew J. Discerning Wisdom: The Sapiential Literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum. New York, NY.: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.

Greenfield, Jonas C. “The Wisdom of Ahiqar.” Pages 55-70 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Greenstein, Edward L. “Sages with a Sense of Humor: The Babylonian Dialogue between the Master and His Servant and the Book of Qoheleth.” Pages 55-66 in Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel. Edited by Richard J. Clifford. Symposium. Atlanta, GA.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Harrington, Daniel J. Wisdom Texts from Qumran. New York, NY.: Routledge, 1996.

Jones, Scott C. “Wisdom's Pedagogy: A Comparison of Proverbs VII and 4Q184.” Vetus Testamentum 53, no. 1 (January 2003): 65-80.

Kitchen, K.A. “Proverbs and Wisdom Books of the Ancient Near East: The Factual History of a Literary Form.” Tyndale Bulletin 28 (1977): 69-114.

Lambert, W.G. “Some new Babylonian wisdom literature.” Pages 30-42 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.


Lichtenstein, Murray. “The Banquet Motifs in Keret and in Proverbs 9.” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies 1, no. 1 (1968): 19-31.

Marks, John H., ed. Love and Death in the Ancient Near East: Essays in Honor of Marvin H. Pope. Four Quarters Pub. Co., 1987.

Overland, Paul. “Structure in The Wisdom of Amenemope and Proverbs.” Pages 275-291 in Go to the Land I Will Show You: Studies in Honor of Dwight W. Young. Edited by Joseph E. Coleson and Victor H. Matthews. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 1996.

Ray, J.D. “Egyptian Wisdom Literature.” Pages 17-29 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Ruffle, John. “The Teaching of Amenemope and its Connection with the Book of Proverbs.” Tyndale Bulletin 28 (1977): 29-68.

Shupak, Nili. “The Instruction of Amenemope and Proverbs 22:17-24:22 from the Perspective of Contemporary Research.” Pages 203-220 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

van der Woude, Adam S. “Wisdom at Qumran.” Pages 244-256 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

van Leeuwen, Raymond C. “Cosmos, Temple, House: Building and Wisdom in Mesopotamia and Israel.” Pages 67-92 in Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel. Edited by Richard J. Clifford. Symposium. Atlanta, GA.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Veldhuis, Neik. “Sumerian Proverbs in their Curricular Context.” Journal of American Oriental Society 120, no. 3 (2000): 383-399.

Sages, School, Scribes, Writing and Literacy in the ancient Near East:Beaulieu, Paul-Alain. “The Social and Intellectual Setting of Babylonian Wisdom Literature.”

Pages 3-20 in Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel. Edited by Richard J. Clifford. Symposium. Atlanta, GA.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Blenkinsopp, Joseph. Sage, Priest, Prophet: Religious and Intellectual Leadership in Ancient Israel. 1st ed. Westminster John Knox Press, 1995.

Camp, Claudia V. “Becoming Canon: Woman, Texts, and Scribes in Proverbs and Sirach.” Pages 371-388 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kevin G. Friebel, , and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Crenshaw, James L. Education in Ancient Israel : Across the Deadening Silence. 1st ed. Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York, NY: Anchor Bible, 1998.

Davies, G.I. “Were there schools in ancient Israel?.” Pages 199-211 in Wisdom in ancient Israel:


Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Davies, Philip R. Scribes and Schools: The Canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998.

Davis, Ellen F. “Persevering Virtues: Renewing the Tradition of the Sages.” Pages 183-201 in Character & Scripture: Moral Formation, Community, and Biblical Interpretation. Edited by William P. Brown. Grand Rapids, MI.: Eerdmans, 2002.

Eaton, John. “Memory and Encounter: An Educational Ideal.” Pages 179-191 in Of Prophets' Visions and the Wisdom of Sages: Essays in Honour of R. Norman Whybray on his Seventieth Birthday. Edited by Heather A. McKay and David J.A. Clines. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplemental Series. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993.

Fox, Michael V. “Who Can Learn? A Dispute in Ancient Pedagogy.” Pages 78-101 in Wisdom, You are My Sister: Essays in Honor of Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Biblical Association, 1997.

Gammie, John G., and Leo G. Perdue, eds. The Sage in Israel and the Ancient Near East. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 1990. This book covers many topics relating to the sage and scribalism within an ancient Near Eastern context. While this book is being mentioned here, each individual essay is also included within the bibliography.

Harris, Rivkah. “The Female "Sage" in Mesopotamian Literature.” Pages 3-18 in The Sage in Israel and the Ancient Near East. Edited by John G. Gammie and Leo G. Perdue. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 1990.

Millard, Alan Ralph. “Writing, Writing Materials and Literacy in the Ancient Near East.” Pages 1003-1011 in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books. Edited by Bill T. Arnold and H. G. M. Williamson. Downers Grove, IL.: InterVarsity Press, 2005.

van Leeuwen, Raymond C. “Scribal Wisdom and Theodicy in the Book of the Twelve.” Pages 31-50 in In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. Edited by Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott, and William Johnston Wiseman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

van der Toorn, Karel. “Why Wisdom Became a Secret: On Wisdom as a Written Genre.” Pages 21-32 in Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel. Edited by Richard J. Clifford. Symposium. Atlanta, GA.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Veldhuis, Neik. “Sumerian Proverbs in their Curricular Context.” Journal of American Oriental Society 120, no. 3 (2000): 383-399.

Wright, J. Edward. “Baruch, the Ideal Sage.” Pages 193-210 in Go to the Land I Will Show You: Studies in Honor of Dwight W. Young. Edited by Joseph E. Coleson and Victor H. Matthews. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 1996.

Zuck, Roy B. “Hebrew Words for “Teach” .” Bibliotheca Sacra 121, no. 483 (1964): 235-241.


Commentaries on JobAndersen, Francis I. Job: An Introduction & Commentary. Tyndale Old Testament

Commentaries. Downers Grove, IL.: InterVarsity Press, 1976.

Clines, David J.A. Job 1-20. Vol. 17. Word Biblical Commentary. Waco, TX: Thomas Nelson, 1989.

Driver, Samuel Rolles, and George Buchanan Gray. A Critical Commentary on the Book of Job. International Critical Commentary. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1958.

Gordis, Robert. Book of God and Man: A Study of Job. University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Jastrow Jr., Morris. The Book of Job. Philadelphia, Pa.: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1920.

Keil, Carl Friedrich, and Franz Delitzsch. Job. Translated by Francis Bolton. Vol. 4. 10 vols. Reprint. Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament . Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1982.

Neiman, David. The Book of Job;. Israel: Massada, 1972.

Newsom, Carol A. “Job.” Pages 317-638 in The New Interpreter's Bible. Nashville, TN.: Abingdon Press, 1996.

Pope, Marvin H. Job: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Revised. Anchor Bible. New York, NY.: Doubleday, 1965.

Umbreit, Friedrich Wilhelm Carl. A New Version of the Book of Job; with Expository Notes, and An Introduction, on the Spirit, Composition, and Author of the Book. Edinburgh, T. Clark, 1836-37., 1836.

Wilson, Gerald Henry. Job. New International Biblical Commentary. Peabody, MA.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2006.

Articles or Books on Aspects of JobBarr, James. “The Book of Job and Its Modern Interpreters.” Bulletin of the John Rylands

Library 54 (1971): 28-46.

Boorer, Suzanne. “A Matter of Life and Death: A Comparison of Provers 1-9 and Job.” Pages 187-204 in Prophets and Paradigms: Essays in Honor of Gene M. Tucker. Edited by Daniel G. Reid. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplemental Series. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996.

Clines, David J.A. “Why Is There a Book of Job, and What Does It Do to You If You Read It?.” Pages 122-144 in Interested Parties: The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Hebrew Bible. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Series: Gender, Culture, Theory. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.


Dahood, Mitchell. “Chiasmus in Job: A Text-Critical and Philological Criterion.” Pages 119-130 in A Light unto My Path: Old Testament Studies in Honor of Jacob M. Myers. Edited by Howard N. Bream, Ralph D. Heim, and Carey A. Moore. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1974.

Dumbrell, William J. “The Purpose of the Book of Job.” Pages 91-105 in The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Freedman, David Noel. “Orthographic Peculiarities in the Book of Job.” Pages 44-60 in Divine Commitment and Human Obligation: Ancient Israelite History and Religion. Grand Rapids, MI.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1997.

Fontaine, Carole R. “The Proof of the Pudding: Proverbs and Gender in the Performance Arena.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 29, no. 2 (2004): 179-204.

Glatzer, Nahum N. Dimensions of Job. Schocken, 1977.

Greenstein, Edward L. “A Forensic Understanding of the Speech from the Whirlwind.” Pages 241-258 in Texts, Temples and Traditions: A Tribute to Menahem Haran. Edited by Michael V. Fox, Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, Avi Hurvitz, Michael L. Klein, Baruch J. Schwartz, and Nili Shupak. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 1996.

Hamilton, Mark. “Elite Lives: Job 29–31 and Traditional Authority.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 32, no. 1 (2007): 69-89.

Harris, R. Laird. “The Book of Job and Its Doctrine of God .” Grace Theological Journal 13, no. 3 (1972): 3-33.

Kutz, Karl V. “Characterization in the Old Greek of Job.” Pages 345-356 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kevin G. Friebel, and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Magary, Dennis R. “Answering Questions, Questioning Answers: The Rhetoric of Interrogatives in the Speeches of Job and His Friends.” Pages 283-300 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel and Kevin G. Friebel, . Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Lynch, Matthew J. “Bursting at the Seams: Phonetic Rhetoric in the Speeches of Elihu.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 30, no. 3 (2006): 345-364.

Mayhew, Eugene J. “God’s Use Of General Revelation In His Response To Job: A Critique Of 2000 Years Of Interpretation In Judaism And Christianity.” Journal of Christian Apologetics 2, no. 1 (Summer 1998): 94-131.

Mettinger, Tryggve N.D. “Intertextuality: Allusion and Vertical Context Systems in Some Job Passages.” Pages 257-280 in Of Prophets' Visions and the Wisdom of Sages: Essays in Honour of R. Norman Whybray on his Seventieth Birthday. Edited by Heather A. McKay and David J.A. Clines. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplemental Series.


Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993.

Newsom, Carol A. “Narrative Ethics, Character, and the Prose Tale of Job.” Pages 121-134 in Character & Scripture: Moral Formation, Community, and Biblical Interpretation. Edited by William P. Brown. Grand Rapids, MI.: Eerdmans, 2002.

Ngwa, Kenneth. “Did Job Suffer for Nothing? The Ethics of Piety, Presumption and the Reception of Disaster in the Prologue of Job.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 33, no. 3 (2009): 359-380.

Nicholson, E.W. “The limits of theodicy as a theme of the book of Job.” Pages 71-82 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Parsons, Gregory W. “Literary Features of the Book of Job .” Bibliotheca Sacra 138, no. 551 (1981): 218-221.

---. “Guidelines for Understanding and Proclaiming the Book of Job.” Bibliotheca Sacra 151, no. 604 (1994): 394-414.

---. “The Structure and Purpose of the Book of Job .” Bibliotheca Sacra 138, no. 550 (1981): 141-163.

Penchansky, David. “Job's Wife: The Satan Handmaid.” Pages 223-228 in Shall Not the Judge of All the Earth Do What Is Right?: Studies On the Nature of God in Tribute to James L. Crenshaw. Edited by Paul L. Redditt. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2000.

Perdue, Leo G. “Wisdom in the Book of Job.” Pages 73-98 in In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. Edited by Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott, and William Johnston Wiseman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

--. Wisdom in Revolt: Metaphorical Theology in the Book of Job. Edited by David J.A. Clines and Philip R. Davies. Journal for the Study of Old Testament Supplement Series 112. Sheffield, England: Almond Press, 1991.

Polak, Frank H. “On Prose and Poetry in the Book of Job.” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies 24 (1996): 61-97.

Pope, Marvin H. “Viewed as a Whole.” Pages 276-277 in The Dimensions of Job. Edited by Nahum N. Glatzer. New York, NY: Schocken, 1977.

Sarna, Nahum. “Epic Substratum in the Prose of Job.” Pages 411-424 in Studies in Biblical Interpretation. JPS Scholars of Distinction Series. Philadelphia, Pa.: Jewish Publishing Society, 2000.

---. “The Mythological Background of Job 18.” Pages 425-430 in Studies in Biblical Interpretation. JPS Scholars of Distinction Series. Philadelphia, Pa.: Jewish Publishing Society, 2000.

---. “Notes on the Use of the Definite Article in the Poetry of Job.” Pages 279-284 in Texts, Temples and Traditions: A Tribute to Menahem Haran. Edited by Michael V. Fox, Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, Avi Hurvitz, Michael L. Klein, Baruch J. Schwartz, and Nili Shupak. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 1996.


Shepherd, David. “'Strike his bone and his flesh': Reading Job from the Beginning.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 33, no. 1 (2008): 81-97.

Schultz, Carl. “The Cohesive Issue of mispat in Job.” Pages 159-175 in Go to the Land I Will Show You: Studies in Honor of Dwight W. Young. Edited by Joseph Coleson and Victor H. Matthews. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 1996.

Smick, Elmer. “Mythology And The Book Of Job.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 13, no. 2 (Spring 1970): 101-109.

Szpek, Heidi M. “On the Influence of Job on Jewish Hellenistic Literature.” Pages 357-370 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kevin G. Friebel, , and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Wilson, Gerald. “Preknowledge, Anticipation, and the Poetics of Job.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 30, no. 2 (2005): 243-356.

Zuckerman, Bruce. Job the Silent: A Study in Historical Counterpoint. Reprint. Oxford University Press, 1998.

Commentaries on Ecclesiastes:Fox, Michael V. A Time to Tear Down and a Time to Build Up: A Rereading of Ecclesiastes.

Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999.

Garrett, Duane A. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs. The New American Commentary. Nashville, TN.: B&H Publishing Group, 1993.

Gordis, Robert. Koheleth -- The Man and His World: A Study of Ecclesiastes. 3rd ed. New York, NY.: Schocken, 1987.

--. The Wisdom of Ecclesiastes. New York, NY.: Behrman House, 1945.

Jastrow Jr., Morris. A Gentle Cynic: Being A Translation of the Book of Koheleth. Philadelphia, Pa.: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1919.

Keil, Carl Friedrich, and Franz Delitzsch. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon. Translated by M.G. Easton. Vol. 6. 10 vols. Reprint. Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament . Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1982.

Longman III., Tremper. The Book of Ecclesiastes. New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997.

Murphy, Roland E. Ecclesiastes. Vol. 23. Word Biblical Commentary. Waco, TX: Thomas Nelson, 1992.

Scott, R.B.Y. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes. Anchor Bible Commentary. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1965.

Seow, Choon-Leon. Ecclesiastes: A New Translation with Introduction. Vol. 18. 1st ed. Anchor Bible Commentary. New York, NY: Doubleday , 1997.


Towner, W. Sibley. “Ecclesiastes.” Pages 265-360 in The New Interpreter's Bible. Nashville, TN.: Abingdon Press, 1997.

Articles, Books or Themes on Aspects of EcclesiastesBartholomew, Craig. “Qoheleth in the Canon? Current Trends in the Interpretation of

Ecclesiastes.” Themelios 24, no. 3 (May 1999): 4-20.

Bream, Howard N. “Life without Resurrection: Two Perspectives from Qoheleth.” Pages 49-65 in A Light unto My Path: Old Testament Studies in Honor of Jacob M. Myers. Edited by Ralph D. Heim and Carey A. Moore. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1974.

Caneday, Ardel B. “Qoheleth: Enigmatic Pessimist or Godly Sage.” Grace Theological Journal 7, no. 1 (Spring 1986): 21-56.

Christianson, Eric S. “The Ethics of Narrative Wisdom: Qoheleth as Test Case.” Pages 202-210 in Character & Scripture: Moral Formation, Community, and Biblical Interpretation. Edited by William P. Brown. Grand Rapids, MI.: Eerdmans, 2002.

Forti, Tova. “The Fly and the Dog: Observations on Ideational Polarity in the Book of Qoheleth.” Pages 235-256 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kevin G. Friebel, , and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Fox, Michael V. “Qohelet's Epistemology.” Hebrew Union College Annual 58 (1987): 137-155.

---. “Wisdom in Qoheleth.” Pages 115-132 in In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. Edited by Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott, and William Johnston Wiseman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

Greenstein, Edward L. “Sages with a Sense of Humor: The Babylonian Dialogue between the Master and His Servant and the Book of Qoheleth.” Pages 55-66 in Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel. Edited by Richard J. Clifford. Symposium. Atlanta, GA.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Kaiser, Otto. “Qoheleth.” Pages 83-93 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson, Translated by Stuart Weeks. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

McCabe, Robert V. “The Message of Ecclesiastes.” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 1 (Spring 1996): 85-112.

Miller, Douglas B. Symbol and Rhetoric in Ecclesiastes: The Place of Hebel in Qohelet's Work. Academia Biblica. Atlanta, GA.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

Schoors, Antoon. “The Verb haya in Qoheleth.” Pages 229-238 in Shall Not the Judge of All the Earth Do What Is Right?: Studies On the Nature of God in Tribute to James L. Crenshaw. Edited by David Penchansky and Paul L. Redditt. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2000.

Schultz, Richard L. “A Sense of Timing: A Neglected Aspect of Qoheleth's Wisdom.” Pages 257-268 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox


on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kevin G. Friebel, , and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Shuster, Martin. “Being as Breath, Vapor as Joy: Using Martin Heidegger to Re-read theBook of Ecclesiastes.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 33, no. 2 (2008): 219-244.

Seow, Choon-Leon. “"Beyond Them, My Son, Be Warned": The Epilogue of Qoheleth Revisited.” Pages 125-141 in Wisdom, You are My Sister: Essays in Honor of Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday. Edited by Michael L. Barré. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Biblical Association, 1997.

Wright, Addison G. “The Poor But Wise Youth and the Old But Foolish King (Qoh 4:13-16).” Pages 142-156 in Wisdom, You are My Sister: Essays in Honor of Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Biblical Association, 1997.

Wright, J. Stafford. “The Interpretation of Ecclesiastes.” Pages 133-150 in Classical Evangelical Essays On Old Testament Interpretation. Edited by Walter C. Jr. Kaiser. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1973.

Zuck, Roy B. “God and Man in Ecclesiastes.” Bibliotheca Sacra 148, no. 589 (1991): 51-67.

Commentary on ProverbsClifford, Richard J. Proverbs. Old Testament Library. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox

Press, 1999.

Cohen, A. Proverbs: Hebrew Text & English Translation. Rev. ed. The Soncino Books of the Bible. New York, NY.: The Soncino Press, 1985.

Fox, Michael V. Proverbs 1-9. Anchor Bible Commentary. New York, NY: Doubleday, 2000.



Kidner, Derek. Proverbs: An Introduction & Commentary. Tyndale Commentary on the Old Testament. Downers Grove, IL.: InterVarsity Press, 1981.

Longman III., Tremper. Proverbs. Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006.

McKane, William. Proverbs: A New Approach. Old Testament Library. Philadelphia, Pa.: Westminster Press, 1970.

Murphy, Roland E. Proverbs . Vol. 22. Word Biblical Commentary. Waco, TX: Thomas Nelson, 1998.


Perdue, Leo G. Proverbs. Interpretation. Philadelphia, Pa.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000.

Scott, R.B.Y. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes. Anchor Bible Commentary. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1965.

Toy, Crawford Howell. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Proverbs. International Critical Commentary. Scribner, 1908.

van Leeuwen, Raymond C. “ Proverbs.” The New Interpreter's Bible. Nashville, TN.: Abingdon Press, 1997.

Waltke, Bruce K. The Book of Proverbs: Chapters 1-15. New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004.

---. The Book of Proverbs: Chapters 15-31. New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005.

Whybray, R.N. The Book of Proverbs. The Cambridge Bible Commentary on the New English Bible. London: Cambridge University Press, 1972.

Higher Criticism, Philology, and Genre within the book of ProverbsClifford, Richard J. “Observations on the Text and Versions of Proverbs.” Pages 47-61 in

Wisdom, You are My Sister: Essays in Honor of Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday. Edited by Michael L. Barré. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Biblical Association, 1997.

Cook, John A. “Genericity, Tense, and Verbal Patterns in the Sentence Literature of Proverbs.” Pages 117-134 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kevin G. Friebel, , and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Cook, Johann. “The Text-Critical Value of the Septuagint of Proverbs.” Pages 407-420 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kevin G. Friebel, , and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Dahood, Mitchell. Proverbs and Northwest Semitic Philology. Scripta Pontificii Intituti Biblici. Rome: Pontifcium Institutum Biblicum, 1963.

Fox, Michael V. “The Rhetoric of Disjointed Proverbs.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 29, no. 2 (2004): 165-177.

Hildebrandt, Ted. “The Proverb: an interdisciplinary approach to a biblical genre.” Tenure Paper, Gordon College, 2005.

Snell, Daniel C. Twice-Told Proverbs and the Composition of the Book of Proverbs. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 1993.

Whybray, Roger Norman. The Composition of the Book of Proverbs. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994.


Individual Verses or Sections w/in The Book of ProverbsByrageon, Rick W. “The Structure and Significance of Prov 9:7-12.” Journal of the Evangelical

Theological Society 40, no. 3 (September 1997): 367-387.

Brown, William P. “The Didactic Power of Metaphor in the Aphoristic Sayings of Proverbs.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 29, no. 2 (2004): 133-154.

Chisholm Jr., Robert B. “"Drink Water from Your Own Cistern": A Literary Study of Proverbs 5:15-23.” Bibliotheca Sacra 157 (December 2000): 397-409.

Clifford, Richard J. “Proverbs 9 : a suggested Ugaritic parallel..” Vetus Testamentum 25, no. 2 (May 1975): 298-306.

Emerton, J.A. “The Teaching of Amenemope and Proverbs XXII 17-XXIV 22: Further Reflections on a Long Standing Problem..” Vetus Testamentum 51, no. 4 (October 2001): 431-435.

---. “A Problem in Proverbs 3:35.” Pages 9-24 in Sefer Moshe: The Moshe Weinfeld Jubilee Volume. Edited by Chaim Cohen, Avi Hurvitz, and Shalom M. Paul. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2004.

Fontaine, Carole R. “ Visual Metaphors and Proverbs 5:15-20: Some Archaeological Reflections on Gendered Iconography.” Pages 185-202 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kevin G. Friebel, , and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Fox, Michael V. “The Pedagogy of Proverbs 2.” Journal of Biblical Literature 113, no. 2 (1994): 223-243.

-- “Ideas of Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9.” Journal of Biblical Literature 116, no. 4 (Winter 1997): 613-621.

Habel, Norman C. “Symbolism of Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9.” Interpretation 26, no. 2 (April 1972): 131-157.

Harris, Scott L. Proverbs 1-9: A Study of Inner-Biblical Interpretation. SBL Dissertation Series. Atlanta, GA.: Society of Biblical Literature, 1996.

Healey, J.F. “Model of Behavior: Matt 6 29 (//Luke 12 24) and Prov 6 6-8 (Critical Note).” Journal of Biblical Literature 108, no. 3 (1989): 497-498.

Hildebrandt, Ted. “Proverbs 22:6a: Train Up a Child.” Grace Theological Journal 9, no. 1 (1988): 3-19.

--“Proverbial Strings: Cohesion in Proverbs 10.” Grace Theological Journal 11, no. 2 (1990): 171-185.

-- “Motivation and Antithetic Parallelism in Proverbs 10-15.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 35, no. 4 (December 1992): 433-444.


Hurowitz, Victor Avigdor. “Paradise Regained: Proverbs 3:13-20 Reconsidered.” Pages 49-62 in Sefer Moshe: The Moshe Weinfeld Jubilee Volume. Edited by Chaim Cohen, Avi Hurvitz, and Shalom M. Paul. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2004.

Kaiser Jr., Walter C. “True Marital Love in Proverbs 5:15-23 and the Interpretation of Song of Songs.” Pages 106-116 in The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Kovacs, Brian Watson . “Sociological-Structural Constraints Upon Wisdom: The Spatial and Temporal Matrix of Proverbs 15:28-22:16.” Vanderbilt University, 1978.

Kuntz, J Kenneth. “Affirming Less as More: Scholarly Engagements with Aphoristic Rhetoric.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 29, no. 2 (2004): 205-242.

Landes, George M. “Creation Tradition in Proverbs 8:22-31.” Pages 279-293 in A Light unto My Path: Old Testament Studies in Honor of Jacob M. Myers. Edited by Howard N. Bream, Ralph D. Heim, and Carey A. Moore. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1974.

Lenzi, Alan. “Proverbs 8:22-31: Three Perspectives on Its Composition.” Journal of Biblical Literature 125, no. 4 (2006): 687-714.

Lichtenstein, Murray. “The Banquet Motifs in Keret and in Proverbs 9.” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies 1, no. 1 (1968): 19-31.

Montgomery, David J. “"A Bribe Is a Charm": A Study of Proverbs 17:8.” Pages 134-149 in The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Newsom, Carol A. “Woman and the Discourse of Patriarchal Wisdom: A Study of Proverbs 1-9.” Pages 142-160 in Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel. Edited by Peggy L. Day. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989.

Ogden Bellis, Alice. “The Gender and Motives of the Wisdom Teacher in Proverbs 7.” Bulletin for Biblical Research 6 (1996): 15-22.

Overland, Paul. “Structure in The Wisdom of Amenemope and Proverbs.” Pages 275-291 in Go to the Land I Will Show You: Studies in Honor of Dwight W. Young. Edited by Joseph E. Coleson and Victor H. Matthews. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 1996.

Pemberton, Glenn D. “The Rhetoric of the Father: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Father/Son Lectures in Proverbs 1-9.” PhD, Iliff School of Theology and The University of Denver (Colorado Seminary), 1999.

Perdue, Leo G. “Wisdom Theology and Social History in Proverbs 1-9.” Pages 79-101 in Wisdom, You are My Sister: Essays in Honor of Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday. Edited by Michael L. Barré. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Biblical Association, 1997.

Ruffle, John. “The Teaching of Amenemope and its Connection with the Book of Proverbs.” Tyndale Bulletin 28 (1977): 29-68.

Scott, R.B.Y. “Wisdom in Creation : the 'Amôn of Proverbs 8:30.” Vetus Testamentum 10, no. 2 (April 1960): 213-223.


Shupak, Nili. “The Instruction of Amenemope and Proverbs 22:17-24:22 from the Perspective of Contemporary Research.” Pages 203-220 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Skehan, Patrick W. “Proverbs 5:15-19 and 6:20-24.” Catholic Bible Quarterly 8 (1944): 290-297.

Sneed, Mark. “White Trash” Wisdom: Proverbs 9 Deconstructed.” The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 7 (2007): 2-10.

Stabno, David L. “A Man is the Crucible of His Praise (Pr 27:21).” Evangelical Theological Society: 2005.

Stallman, Robert C. “Divine Hospitality and Wisdom's Banquet in Proverbs 9:1-6.” Pages 117-133 in The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Tan, Nancy Nam Hoon. The 'Foreignness' of the Foreign Woman in Proverbs 1-9: A Study of the Origin and Development of a Biblical Motif. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 381. Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter, 2008.

van Leeuwen, Raymond C. “The Background to Proverbs 30:44a.” Pages 102-124 in Wisdom, You are My Sister: Essays in Honor of Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday. Edited by Michael L. Barré. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Biblical Association, 1997.

Vawter, Bruce. “Prov 8:22: Wisdom and Creation.” Journal of Biblical Literature 99, no. 2 (1980): 205-216.

Waltke, Bruce K. “Lady Wisdom as Mediatrix : An Exposition of Proverbs 1:20-33..” Presbyterion 14, no. 1 (Spring 1988): 1-15.

---. “The Authority of Proverbs : An Exposition of Proverbs 1:2-6..” Presbyterion 13, no. 2 (Fall 1987): 65-78.

Whybray, R. Norman. “Some Literary Problems in Proverbs I-IX.” Vetus Testamentum 16, no. 4 (October 1966): 482-496.

---. “Proverbs VIII 22-31 and Its Supposed Prototypes.” Vetus Testamentum 15, no. 4 (October 1965): 504-514.

Wilbanks, Pete. F. “Non-Proverb Proverbial Bookends: A Possible Lens for Viewing the Book of Proverbs” presented at the ETS Southwest Regional , March 26, 1999.

Wolters, Al. “Nature and Grace in the Interpretation of Proverbs 31:10-31.” Calvin Theological Journal 19 (1984): 153-166.

Themes from ProverbsBland, Dave. “The Formation of Character in the Book of Proverbs.” Restoration Quarterly 40,

no. 4 (1998): 221-237.


Boorer, Suzanne. “A Matter of Life and Death: A Comparison of Provers 1-9 and Job.” Pages 187-204 in Prophets and Paradigms: Essays in Honor of Gene M. Tucker. Edited by Daniel G. Reid. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplemental Series. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996.

Bostrom, Lennart. The God of the Sages: The Portrayal of God in the Book of Proverbs. Coniectanea Biblica: Old Testament Series. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1990.

Brenner, Athalya. “Regulating ‘sons’ and ‘daughters’ in the Torah and in Proverbs: Some Preliminary Insights.” Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 5, no. 10 (July 2005).

Bricker, Daniel P. “The Doctrine Of The ‘B Two Ways’ In Proverbs.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 38, no. 4 (December 1995): 501-517.

Camp, Claudia V. Wisdom and the Feminine in the Book of Proverbs. Decatur, GA.: Almond Press, 1985.

---. Wise, Strange and Holy: The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible ( 320). Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series; Gender, Culture, Theory, 9. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.

---. “Becoming Canon: Woman, Texts, and Scribes in Proverbs and Sirach.” Pages 371-388 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kevin G. Friebel, , and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Clements, Ronald E. “The Concept of Abomination in the Book of Proverbs.” Pages 211-226 in Texts, Temples and Traditions: A Tribute to Menahem Haran. Edited by Michael V. Fox, Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, Avi Hurvitz, Michael L. Klein, Baruch J. Schwartz, and Nili Shupak. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 1996.

---. “The Good Neighbour in the Book of Proverbs.” Pages 209-228 in Of Prophets' Visions and the Wisdom of Sages: Essays in Honour of R. Norman Whybray on his Seventieth Birthday. Edited by Heather A. McKay and David J.A. Clines. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplemental Series. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993.

Clifford, Richard J. “Your Attention Please! Heeding the Proverbs.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 29, no. 2 (2004): 155-163.

Crenshaw, James L. “A Proverb in the Mouth of a Fool.” Pages 103-116 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kevin G. Friebel, , and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Fontaine, Carole R. Smooth Words: Wisdom, Proverbs and Performance in Biblical Wisdom. Journal for the Study of Old Testament Supplemental Series 356. London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.

--.“Wisdom in Proverbs.” Pages 99-114 in In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G.


Gammie. Edited by Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott, and William Johnston Wiseman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

Fox, Michael V. “Aspects of the Religion of the Book of Proverbs.” Hebrew Union College Annual 39 (1968): 55-69.

--“The Epistemology of the Book of Proverbs.” Journal of Biblical Literature 126, no. 4 (2007): 669-684.

-- “The Social Location of the Book of Proverbs.” Pages 227-240 in Texts, Temples and Traditions: A Tribute to Menahem Haran. Edited by Michael V. Fox, Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, Avi Hurvitz, Michael L. Klein, Baruch J. Schwartz, and Nili Shupak. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 1996.

Holmstedt, Robert D. “Word Order in the Book of Proverbs.” Pages 134-154 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by K.G. Friebel, D.R. Magary, and R.L. Troxel. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Kidner, Derek. “The Relationship between God and Man in Proverbs.” Tyndale Bulletin 7-8 (July 1961): 4-8.

Kitchen, K.A. “Proverbs and Wisdom Books of the Ancient Near East: The Factual History of a Literary Form.” Tyndale Bulletin 28 (1977): 69-114.

Longman III., Tremper. How to Read Proverbs. Downers Grove, IL.: InterVarsity Press, 2002.

Murphy, Roland Edmund. “Wisdom and Eros in Proverbs 1-9.” Catholic Bible Quarterly 50 (1988): 600-603.

Snell, Daniel C. “Notes on Love and Death in Proverbs.” Pages 165-168 in Love & Death in the Ancient Near East: Essays in Honor of Marvin H. Pope. Edited by John H. Marks and Robert M. Good. Guilford, CT.: Four Quarters Publishing Company, 1987.

Waltke, Bruce K. “Does Proverbs Promise Too Much?.” Andrews University Seminary Studies 34, no. 2 (Autumn 1996): 319-226.

---. “The Book of Proverbs and Ancient Wisdom Literature.” Bibliotheca Sacra 136, no. 543 (July 1979): 221-239.

---. “The Book of Proverbs and Old Testament Theology.” Bibliotheca Sacra 136 (December 1979): 302-317.

Weeks, Stuart. Instruction and Imagery in Proverbs 1-9. New York, NY.: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Whybray, R. Norman. Wisdom in Proverbs. Studies in Biblical Theology. Naperville, IL.: Alec R. Allenson Inc., 1965.

Williams, James G. Those Who Ponder Proverbs: Aphoristic Thinking and Biblical Literature. Sheffield: Almond Press, 1981.

Yoder, Christine Roy. “Forming "Fearers of Yahweh": Repetition and Contradiction as Pedagogy in Proverbs.” Pages 167-184 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to


Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kevin G. Friebel, , and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Yona, Shamir. “Exegetical and Stylistic Analysis of a Number of Aphorisms in the Book of Proverbs: Mitigation of Monotony in Repetitions in Parallel Texts.” Pages 155-166 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kevin G. Friebel, , and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Song of SongsCarr, G. Lloyd. The Song of Solomon . Vol. 17. Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries. Downers

Grove, IL.: InterVarsity Press, 1984.

Exum, J. Cheryl. Song of Songs. The Old Testament Library. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005.


Hess, Richard S. Song of Songs. Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms. Grand Rapids, MI.: Baker Academic, 2005.


Knight, George A. F. “Revelation of Love: A Commentary on The Song of Songs.” Pages 1-64 in Revelation of God: A Commentary on the Books of the Song of Songs and Jonah. International Theological Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1988.

Murphy, Roland E. The Song of Songs: A Commentary on the Book of Canticles or the Song of Songs . Hermeneia. Fortress Publishers, 1990.

Pope, Marvin H. Song of Songs. Vol. 7. Anchor Bible Commentary. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1995.

Stadelmann, Luis. Love and Politics: A New Commentary on the Song of Songs. Mahwah, NJ.: Paulist Press, 1992.

Weems, Renita J. “Song of Songs.” Pages 361-434 in . The New Interpreter's Bible. Nashville, TN.: Abingdon Press, 1997.

Articles or Books on the Song of SongsAlter, Robert. “An Ode to Intimacy: The Song of Songs.” Biblical Review, August 2002.

Carr, David. “Gender and the Shaping of Desire in the Song of Songs and Its Interpretations.” Journal of Biblical Literature 119, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 233-248.


Exum, J. Cheryl. “The Little Sister and Solomon's Vineyard: Song of Songs 8:8-12 as a Lovers' Dialogue.” Pages 269-282 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kevin G. Friebel, , and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Munro, Jill M. Spikenard and Saffron: A Study of the Poetic Language of the Song of Songs. Edited by David J.A. Clines and Philip R. Davies. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 203. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

Provan, Iain W. “The Terrors of the Night: Love, Sex, and Power in Song of Songs 3.” Pages 150-167 in The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Saebo, Magne. “On the Canonicity of the Song of Songs.” Pages 267-278 in Texts, Temples and Traditions: A Tribute to Menahem Haran. Edited by Michael V. Fox, Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, Avi Hurvitz, Michael L. Klein, Baruch J. Schwartz, and Nili Shupak. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 1996.

Wisdom of Ben SirachCrenshaw, James L. “Sirach.” Pages 601-868 in . The New Interpreter's Bible. Nashville, TN.:

Abingdon Press, 1997.

Skehan, Patrick W., and Alexander A. Di Lella. Wisdom of Ben Sira. Vol. 39. Anchor Bible Commentary. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1987.

Articles on SirachDi Lella, Alexander A. “The Meaning of Wisdom in Ben Sira.” Pages 133-148 in In Search of

Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. Edited by Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott, and William Johnston Wiseman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

Camp, Claudia V. “Becoming Canon: Woman, Texts, and Scribes in Proverbs and Sirach.” Pages 371-388 in Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kevin G. Friebel, , and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Mattila, Sharon Lea. “Ben Sira and the Stoics: A Reexamination of the Evidence.” Journal of Biblical Literature 119, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 473-501.

Snaith, John G. “Ecclesiasticus: A Tract for the Times.” Pages 170-181 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Spatafora, Andrea. “Intelligent or Sensible Woman (Sir 25:8).” Theoforum 31, no. 3 (October 2000): 267-282.

Commentaries on the Wisdom of Solomon


Kolarcik S.J., Michael. “Book of Wisdom.” Pages 435-600 in . The New Interpreter's Bible. Nashville, TN.: Abingdon Press, 1997.

Winston, David. The Wisdom of Solomon: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Anchor Bible Commentary. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1979.

Articles on the Wisdom of SolomonEnns, Peter. “Wisdom of Solomon and Biblical Interpretation in the Second Temple Period.”

Pages 212-225 in The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Horbury, William. “The Christian Use and the Jewish Origins of the Wisdom of Solomon.” Pages 182-198 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Winston, David. “Wisdom in the Wisdom of Solomon.” Pages 149-164 in In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. Edited by Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott, and William Johnston Wiseman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

Articles on Sapiential Texts embedded in Other Parts of the Canon Blenkinsopp, Joseph. “Wisdom in the Chronicler's Word.” Pages 19-30 in In Search of Wisdom:

Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. Edited by Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott, and William Johnston Wiseman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

Brown, Walter E. “Noah: Sot or Saint? Genesis 9:20-27.” Pages 36-60 in The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Brown, William P. “"Come, O Children . . . I Will Teach You the Fear of the Lord" (Psalm 34:12): Comparing Psalms and Proverbs.” Pages 85-102 in Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ages: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kevin G. Friebel, , and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Crenshaw, James L. “Wisdom Psalms?.” Currents in Research 8 (2000): 9-17.

Dell, Katharine J. “I Will Solve My Riddle to the Music of the Lyre (Psalm XLIX 4[5]): A Cultic Setting for Wisdom Psalms.” Vetus Testamentum 54, no. 4 (October 2004): 445-458.

Diewert, David A. “Judah's Argument for Life as Wise Speech.” Pages 61-74 in The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Fee, Gordon D. “Wisdom Christology in Paul: A Dissenting View.” Pages 251-279 in The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.


Fontaine, Carole R. Traditional Sayings in the Old Testament. Sheffield: Almond Press, 1982.

Fox, Michael V. “Wisdom in the Joseph Story.” Vetus Testamentum 51, no. 1 (2001): 26-41.

Gordon, Robert P. “A house divided: wisdom in Old Testament narrative traditions.” Pages 94-105 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Horsley, Richard. “Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Mark.” Pages 223-244 in In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. Edited by Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott, and William Johnston Wiseman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

Johnson, E. Elizabeth. “Wisdom and Apocalyptic in Paul.” Pages 263-284 in In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. Edited by Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott, and William Johnston Wiseman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

Lemaire, Andre'. “Wisdom in Solomonic historiography.” Pages 106-118 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Macintosh, A.A. “Hosea and the wisdom tradition: dependence and independence.” Pages 124-132 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Mastin, B.A. “Wisdom and Daniel.” Pages 161-169 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

McKane, William. “Jeremiah and the Wise.” Pages 142-151 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Mendenhall, George E. “The Shady Side of Wisdom: The Date and Purpose of Genesis 3.” Pages 319-334 in A Light unto My Path: Old Testament Studies in Honor of Jacob M. Myers. Edited by Howard N. Bream, Ralph D. Heim, and Carey A. Moore. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1974.

Patterson, Stephen J. “Wisdom in Q and Thomas.” Pages 187-222 in In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. Edited by Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott, and William Johnston Wiseman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

Perry, T.A. God's Twilight Zone - Wisdom in the Hebrew Bible. Peabody, MA.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2008.

Pippin, Tina. “Wisdom and Apocalyptic in the Apocalypse of John: Desiring Sophia.” Pages 285-296 in In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. Edited by Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott, and William Johnston Wiseman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.


Provan, Iain W. “On 'Seeing' The Trees While Missing the Forest: The Wisdom of Characters and Readers in 2 Samuel and 1 Kings.” Pages 153-173 in In Search of True Wisdom: Essays in Honour of Roland E. Clements. Edited by Edward Ball. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 300. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

Sailhamer, John H. “A Wisdom Composition of the Pentateuch?.” The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Edited by J.I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Scott, Bernard Brandon. “The Gospel of Mathew: A Sapiential Performance of an Apocalyptic Discourse.” Pages 245-262 in In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. Edited by Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott, and William Johnston Wiseman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

Soggins, J.A. “Amos and wisdom.” Pages 119-123 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Terrien, Samuel. “Wisdom in the Psalter.” Pages 51-72 in In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. Edited by Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott, and William Johnston Wiseman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

van Leeuwen, Raymond C. “Scribal Wisdom and Theodicy in the Book of the Twelve.” Pages 31-50 in In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. Edited by Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott, and William Johnston Wiseman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

Whybray, Roger Norman. “The Wisdom Psalms.” Pages 152-160 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M. Williamson. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Williamson, H.G.M. “Isaiah and the Wise.” Pages 133-141 in Wisdom in ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. Edited by John Day and Robert P. Gordon. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Festschrifts, Bound Essays, Dictionaries etc.Barré, Michael L., ed. Wisdom, You are My Sister: Studies in Honor of Roland E. Murphy, O.

Carm., on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Biblical Association, 1997.

Clifford, Richard J., ed. Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel. Symposium. Atlanta, GA.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Crenshaw, James L. Urgent Advice & Probing Questions: Collected Writings on Old Testament Wisdom. Mercer University Press, 1996.

Day, John, Robert P. Gordon, and Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson, eds. Wisdom in Ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton. New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press,


1998.

Gammie, John G., and Leo G. Perdue, eds. The Sage in Israel and the Ancient Near East. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 1990.

Longman III., Tremper, and Peter Enns, eds. Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings. Downers Grove, IL.: IVP Academic, 2008.

McKay, Heather A., and David J.A. Clines, eds. Of Prophets' Visions and the Wisdom of Sages: Essays in Honour of R. Norman Whybray on his Seventieth Birthday. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993.

Packer, J.I., and Sven K. Soderlund, eds. The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Perdue, Leo G., ed. In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. 1st ed. Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

Redditt, Paul L., and David Penchansky, eds. Shall Not the Judge of All the Earth Do What Is Right?: Studies on the Nature of God in Tribute to James L. Crenshaw. 1st ed. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2000.

Troxel, Ronald L., ed. Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.

Zuck, Roy B., ed. Learning From The Sages: Selected Studies on the Book of Proverbs. Eugene, OR.: Wipf & Stock Publishers.


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