The Tree of Life

An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature

by Roland E. Murphy

Imprint: Eerdmans

300 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.77 in

  • Paperback
  • 9780802839657
  • Publication Date: January 28, 2002
  • eBook
  • 9781467427593
  • Publication Date: January 28, 2002

    $33.99

This is a print on demand book and is therefore non-returnable.

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Since 1990 Roland Murphy's Tree of Life has been a standard introduction to the wisdom literature of the Bible. Now The Tree of Life is available in a third edition, complete with a new preface by the author and a special supplement that surveys the latest developments in wisdom research.

This superb study thoroughly explores the wisdom writings of the Bible, interpreting this literature in a way that illumines the development of Israel's search for wisdom throughout its tumultuous history. Murphy looks at each wisdom book individually -- Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Ecclesiasticus, and Wisdom of Solomon -- and adds to them a discussion of wisdom from other parts of the Old Testament. His careful investigations expose the various guises that wisdom adopts -- the "fear of the Lord," moral formation, the universality of human experience, the mysteries of creation, and others.

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