ISBN:
9780300184228
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 191 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2017
Series Statement:
De Gruyter eBook-Paket Theologie, Religionswissenschaften, Judaistik
Series Statement:
The anchor yale bible reference library
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Olyan, Saul M., 1959 - Friendship in the Hebrew Bible
Keywords:
Friendship Bible teaching
;
Bible
;
Friendship
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament
;
Bibel Altes Testament
;
Freundschaft
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- List Of Abbreviations -- -- Introduction -- -- 1. Friends And Family -- -- 2. Failed Friendship -- -- 3. Friendship In Narrative -- -- 4. Friendship In Ben Sira -- -- Conclusion -- -- Notes -- -- Index Of Passages -- -- Index Of Subjects
DOI:
10.12987/9780300184228
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