RT Book
T1 Friendship in the Hebrew Bible
T2 De Gruyter eBook-Paket Theologie, Religionswissenschaften, Judaistik
T2 The anchor yale bible reference library
A1 Olyan, Saul M. 1959-
LA English
PP New Haven London
PB Yale University Press
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1656487179
AB The first comprehensive study of friendship in the Hebrew Bible   Friendship, though a topic of considerable humanistic and cross disciplinary interest in contemporary scholarship, has been largely ignored by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, possibly because of its complexity and elusiveness. Filling a significant gap in our knowledge and understanding of biblical texts, Saul M. Olyan provides this original, accessible analysis of a key form of social relationship. In this thorough and compelling assessment, Olyan analyzes a wide range of texts, including prose narratives, prophetic materials, psalms, pre-Hellenistic wisdom collections, and the Hellenistic-era wisdom book Ben Sira. This in-depth, contextually sensitive, and theoretically engaged study explores how the expectations of friends and family members overlap and differ, examining, among other things, characteristics that make the friend a distinct social actor; failed friendship; and friendships in narratives such as those of Ruth and Naomi, and Jonathan and David. Olyan presents a comprehensive look at what constitutes friendship in the Hebrew Bible.
CN BS1199.F73
SN 9780300184228
K1 Friendship : Bible teaching
K1 Bible
K1 Friendship
K1 Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament
DO 10.12987/9780300184228