Friendship in the Hebrew Bible / / Saul M. Olyan

• Autore: Olyan Saul M.
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 pages)
• Disciplina: 225.81776
• Soggetto topico: Friendship - Biblical teaching
• Note generali: Includes indexes.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Friendship in the Hebrew Bible
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910157411003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anchor Yale Bible reference library.