Description: Aimed at undergraduates on level two or three courses relating to Old Testament Wisdom literature. This book begins with a consideration of what the term 'wisdom literature' means in Hebrew usage, and also examines which biblical materials might properly be classified as belonging to the category of wisdom literature.
Brief description: Alastair Hunter teaches at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Review Quotes: The achievement of this book is to cover a lot of ground briefly and in a relatively straightforward way without compromising the accuracy of the scholarship. (...) Above all the author manages to convey the special characteristics of Wesleyanism at its best, neither Nonconformist nor Church of England and, having natural affinities with both Evangelicals and High Churchmen, a broader Church than the Established Church itself. Edward Royle, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society 'This is an extremely fine study of Israelite Wisdom literature, which ducks none of the complexities and challenges of the genre, but which admirably clarifies many issues. it will be a source of great interest to devotees of the biblical text who wish to learn more about its inner structures and meaning, to students of the text at university or theological college, and to discussion groups in churches and synagogues'. Church Times, May 2007