Offers a selection of passages from the Bible offering advice on honesty, friendship, beauty, pride, worry, obedience, prayer, and other topics

Product Description: This book contributes to current debates in Matthean studies centered around the influence of wisdom thinking in Christology. The primary purpose of the study is to examine key passages in their present context and in relation to Matthew's Gospel as a whole...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses feminist spirituality, looks at the concept of wisdom and provides exercises, meditations, and sermons

Product Description: Proverbial wisdom exists in all cultures in every age, identified through such forms as proverbs, parables, and riddles. But Wisdom Literature--in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, in the ancient world before them, in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and in Gnosticism--has many faces: human, social, cosmic, religious, traditional, theological, and more...read more

Product Description: This study uses recent literary theory in an attempt to reconcile apparent contradictions and discrepancies in the narrative concerning Solomon (I Kings 1-11) into an internally coherent statement about wisdom and law. After a survey of various historical-critical approaches, it moves to a literary perspective to show literary criticism's convergence and divergence with historical criticism...read more

Product Description: This book examines the relationship between the biblical trajectory of Wisdom Christology and the Christologies of Karl Rahner and Norman Pittenger and explores the contribution that the wisdom tradition can make to contemporary interpretations of Jesus Christ...read more

Product Description: A new investigation of wisdom at Corinth which argues that the wisdom which Paul opposes in 1 Corinthians 1ó3 may be convincingly interpreted against the background of early post-biblical Jewish sapiential traditions. Examines the Book of Sirach, the Qumran scrolls, the Philonic literature, and the Book of Wisdom...read more

The anonymous late-fourteenth-century mystical work suggests that man's union with God can be achieved through love and devotion (view table of contents)

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