Friendship in the Hebrew Bible Hardback
by Saul M. Olyan
Part of the The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library series
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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.Â
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:07/03/2017
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- ISBN:9780300182682
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:07/03/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780300182682
