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This book brings together a series of informative essays on the theme of Creation in various Biblical traditions. They include Bernard Batto's "Creation Theology in Genesis", Robert Di Vito's "The Demarcation of Divine and Human Realms in Genesis 2-11", Richard Clifford's "Creation in Psalms", James Crenshaw's "When Form and Content Clash: The Theology of Job 38:1-40:5", Gale Yee's "The Theology of Creation in Proverbs 8:22-31", and Michael Ko...

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This book brings together a series of informative essays on the theme of Creation in various Biblical traditions. They include Bernard Batto's "Creation Theology in Genesis", Robert Di Vito's "The Demarcation of Divine and Human Realms in Genesis 2-11", Richard Clifford's "Creation in Psalms", James Crenshaw's "When Form and Content Clash: The Theology of Job 38:1-40:5", Gale Yee's "The Theology of Creation in Proverbs 8:22-31", and Michael Ko...

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This book brings together a series of informative essays on the theme of Creation in various Biblical traditions. They include Bernard Batto's "Creation Theology in Genesis", Robert Di Vito's "The Demarcation of Divine and Human Realms in Genesis 2-11", Richard Clifford's "Creation in Psalms", James Crenshaw's "When Form and Content Clash: The Theology of Job 38:1-40:5", Gale Yee's "The Theology of Creation in Proverbs 8:22-31", and Michael Ko...

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The Complete text of each biblical book is given, with the commentary on the same or facing page. Review aids and discussion topics make the series practical and useful for individual or group Bible study.

Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

The term "cosmic mountain" is a rendering of the nineteenth-century German scholarly designation Weltberg, which was derived from ancient Mesopotamian sources. The book offers a critique of the concept, especially as it has been applied to West Semitic religion, chiefly that witnessed to in Ugaritic texts and the Bible. Chapter 2 examines the connection of various Ugaritic deities to sacred mountains--El, Baal, Mot, Anat, and other deities. Ch...

Volume 20

The New Interpreter's Bible Commentary offers critically sound biblical interpretations. Guided by scholars, pastors and laity representing diverse traditions and academic experience, this collection of commentary meets the needs of preachers, teachers, and all students of the Bible. Easy-To-Use Format A detailed, critical commentary providing an exegetical "close-reading" of the biblical text Reflections that present a detailed exposition of ...

Through translation, technical notes, and insightful commentary, Richard Clifford sheds new understanding on Proverbs. By focusing on the rhetoric of Proverbs, Clifford demonstrates how the book fosters a lifelong search for wisdom, and enables readers to see how the instructions and sayings are concerned with contemporary issues...

This volume offers a rich collection of essays by distinguished Assyriologists and biblicists on the social, intellectual, and literary setting of Mesopotamian wisdom, on specific wisdom texts, and on key themes common to both Mesopotamian and biblical culture.

In this volume, Richard J. Clifford seeks to make the biblical wisdom literature intelligible to modern readers. It is easy to quote the occasional proverb, say a few things about "the problem of evil" in Job, or quote "vanity of vanities, " but far more rewarding to read the whole book with an appreciative and informed eye. Opening chapters of The Wisdom Literature comment on the striking similarities between ancient and modern "wisdom litera...

Clifford differs from other commentators on the Psalms chiefly in his concern with the inner dramatic logic of the Psalms - how they organize the experience and desires of the "pray-er" and bring them to a proper conclusion. His primary concern is to help readers see the pattern and progression within the Psalms, while at the same time attending to the richness of their words and the texture of their imagery.

This second volume completes Richard Clifford's Commentary on the Psalms. The richimagery of the Psalms has guided and molded pray-ers since ancient times. As we seekto understand the threads and colors of the Psalms, Clifford helps us see theirinner dramatic logic, how they organize the experience and desires of the pray-er, and how they seek to move us. His primary concern is to help readers see the patternand progression within the Psalms, ...