Over ninety contributors, many of them experts in this literature, have contributed to the Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings, which offers nearly 150 articles covering all the important aspects of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Psalms, Song of Songs, Lamentations, Ruth and Esther.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• How to Use This Dictionary
• Abbreviations
• Transliterations
• List of Contributors
• A
• ACCUSER.
• ANTHROPOLOGY.
• ACROSTIC
• ADDITIONS TO ESTHER.
• AFTERLIFE
• AGUR.
• AHASUERUS
• ALEF-BET.
• ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION.
• ALLITERATION.
• ALPHA TEXT OF ESTHER.
• ALPHABET.
• AMBIGUITY
• AMENEMOPE, INSTRUCTION OF.
• AMESTRIS.
• ANGEL OF YAHWEH.
• ANIMAL IMAGERY
• ANTITHETIC PARALLELISM.
• APOCALYPTIC.
• ARCHITECTURAL IMAGERY
• AROMATICS.
• ASAPH AND SONS OF KORAH
• ASSONANCE.
• AUTOBIOGRAPHY
• B
• BATTLE IMAGERY.
• BEN SIRA.
• BIBLICAL THEOLOGY.
• BICOLON, BICOLA.
• BOAZ
• BODY IMAGERY.
• C
• CAESURA.
• CANON
• CANONICAL INTERPRETATION.
• CANTO.
• CHAOS AND DEATH
• CHIASM
• CHRISTOLOGY.
• COLON, COLA.
• COMPARATIVE STUDIES.
• CONFIDENCE, PSALMS OF
• CONSONANCE.
• COSMETICS.
• COSMIC BATTLE.
• COSMOGONY.
• COVENANT.
• COVENANT FESTIVAL.
• CREATION IMAGERY
• CREATION THEOLOGY
• CULT, WORSHIP: PSALMS
• CULT, WORSHIP: WISDOM
• CURSES.
• D
• DAVID
• DEAD SEA SCROLLS
• DEATH.
• DEBATE.
• DELIVERANCE.
• DEMOCRATIZATION OF PSALMS.
• DESTRUCTION
• DEVOTIONAL INTERPRETATION.
• DIRGE.
• DISCOURSE IN PROVERBS
• DISPUTATION
• DIVINE COUNCIL
• DIVINE PRESENCE
• E
• ECCLESIASTES 1: BOOK OF
• ECCLESIASTES 2: ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN BACKGROUND
• ECCLESIASTES 3: HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
• ECCLESIASTICUS.
• EDITORIAL CRITICISM
• EDUCATION.
• ELIHU.
• ELLIPSIS
• ENEMIES.
• ENTRANCE LITURGIES.
• ENVELOPE STRUCTURE/FIGURE.
• ESTHER 1: BOOK OF
• ESTHER 2: EXTRABIBLICAL BACKGROUND
• ESTHER 3: HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
• ESTHER 4: ADDITIONS
• ESTHER 5: GREEK VERSIONS
• ESTHER 6: PERSON
• ETHICS
• EVIL.
• EXILE.
• EXPERIENTIAL INTERPRETATION.
• F
• FEAR OF THE LORD
• FEMINIST INTERPRETATION
• FESTIVALS.
• FLORAL IMAGERY
• FOLLY
• FOOL, FOOLISHNESS.
• FORM CRITICISM
• FORTRESS.
• FRAME NARRATIVE
• G
• GATE.
• GOD
• GODS.
• GRAMMAR, HEBREW.
• GREEK VERSIONS OF ESTHER.
• GREEK WISDOM.
• H
• HEBREW LANGUAGE
• HEMISTICH.
• HERMENEUTICS
• HISTORICAL CRITICISM
• HISTORICAL ALLUSIONS.
• HISTORY.
• HONOR AND SHAME
• HOUSE.
• HUMANITY.
• HYMNS
• I
• ICONOGRAPHY.
• IMAGERY
• IMPRECATION
• IMPRISONMENT IMAGERY
• INCLUSIO
• INNERBIBLICAL EXEGESIS.
• INTERNATIONAL WISDOM.
• INTERTEXTUALITY
• J
• JOB 1: BOOK OF
• JOB 2: ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN BACKGROUND
• JOB 3: HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
• JOB 4: PERSON
• JUSTICE.
• K
• KINGSHIP.
• KINGSHIP PSALMS
• KINSHIP.
• KINSMAN-REDEEMER AND LEVIRATE
• KORAH, SONS OF.
• L
• LAMENT, PSALMS OF
• LAMENTATIONS 1: BOOK OF
• LAMENTATIONS 2: ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN BACKGROUND
• LAMENTATIONS 3: HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
• LATE BIBLICAL HEBREW.
• LAW
• LEMUEL AND AGUR
• LEVIATHAN.
• LEVIRATE.
• LITURGICAL READINGS, JEWISH.
• LIFE, IMAGERY OF
• LITURGICAL INTERPRETATION.
• LOVE POETRY.
• LYRIC POETRY
• M
• MAAT
• MARRIAGE AND SEX
• MEANINGLESSNESS.
• MEGILLOT AND FESTIVALS
• MEMORY.
• MERISM
• MESSIAH
• METAPHOR.
• METER
• MOAB.
• MONSTERS.
• MORDECAI
• MOT.
• MOUNT ZION.
• MOUNTAIN IMAGERY
• MUSIC, SONG
• N
• NAOMI
• NARRATIVE.
• NARRATIVE INTERPRETATION.
• NEW YEAR FESTIVAL.
• NINTH OF AV, FESTIVAL OF.
• NONCANONICAL PSALMS.
• NOVELLA, STORY, NARRATIVE
• O
• ONOMATOPOEIA.
• ORAL POETRY
• ORALITY.
• P
• PALACE.
• PARADISE.
• PARALLELISM
• PARALLELISMUS MEMBRORUM.
• PARANOMASIA.
• PASSOVER, FESTIVAL OF.
• PENTECOST, FESTIVAL OF.
• PERIPETY.
• PERSIA.
• PERSONIFICATION
• PLOT DEVELOPMENT.
• POETICS, TERMINOLOGY OF
• POETRY, HEBREW.
• POLYTHEISM.
• POSTCOLONIAL INTERPRETATION.
• POSTHOLOCAUST INTERPRETATION.
• POSTMODERN INTERPRETATION.
• POVERTY, PROVISIONS FOR.
• PRAISE.
• PRISON.
• PROPHECY.
• PROPHETS.
• PROTECTION IMAGERY
• PROVERB, GENRE OF
• PROVERBS 1: BOOK OF
• PROVERBS 2: ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN BACKGROUND
• PROVERBS 3: HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
• PROVIDENCE, DIVINE.
• PSALMS, NONCANONICAL.
• PSALMS 1: BOOK OF
• PSALMS 2: ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN BACKGROUND
• PSALMS 3: HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
• PSALMS 4: TITLES
• PSALMS 5: ICONOGRAPHY
• PSALTER, GROWTH OF.
• PSALTER, SHAPE OF.
• PSEUDO-SOLOMON.
• PUNS.
• PURIM
• Q
• QINAH METER.
• QOHELET
• QUMRAN.
• R
• REFRAIN
• RELIGION.
• REMEMBRANCE
• RETRIBUTION
• REWARDS.
• RHETORICAL CRITICISM
• RHYME.
• RHYTHM.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
• ROCK, YAHWEH AS.
• ROYAL IDEOLOGY.
• ROYAL PSALMS.
• ROYAL COURT
• RUTH 1: BOOK OF
• RUTH 2: ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN BACKGROUND
• RUTH 3: HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
• RUTH 4: PERSON
• S
• SAGES, SCHOOLS, EDUCATION
• SALVATION AND DELIVERANCE IMAGERY
• SATAN
• SCHOOLS.
• SCRIBES
• SEA, PRIMORDIAL.
• SEX.
• SHAME.
• SHEOL.
• SIMILE.
• SIRACH, BOOK OF
• SOCIAL-SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES
• SOCIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION.
• SOLOMON
• SONG.
• SONG OF SONGS 1: BOOK OF
• SONG OF SONGS 2: ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN BACKGROUND
• SONG OF SONGS 3: HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
• SONS OF KORAH.
• SOUND PATTERNS
• SPACIALITY.
• SPIRIT, DIVINE.
• STANDARD BIBLICAL HEBREW.
• STANZA, STROPHE
• STORM IMAGERY.
• STORY.
• STRONGHOLD.
• STROPHE.
• SUFFERING
• SUMERIAN CITY LAMENTS.
• SUPERSCRIPTIONS.
• SUSA
• SYLLABIC METER.
• SYNONYMOUS PARALLELISM.
• SYNTHETIC PARALLELISM.
• T, U, V
• TABERNACLES, FESTIVAL OF
• TARGUMIM
• TEMPLE.
• TERSENESS
• TEXT, TEXTUAL CRITICISM
• THANKSGIVING, PSALMS OF
• THEODICY
• THEOPHANY
• TIME
• TORAH PSALMS.
• TOWER.
• TWO WAYS.
• TYPOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION.
• VANITY.
• VASHTI
• VIOLENCE.
• VIRTUOUS WOMAN.
• VOCABULARY, HEBREW.
• W
• WALL.
• WARFARE IMAGERY
• WASF
• WEAPONS.
• WIDOWS, WIDOWHOOD.
• WISDOM, GREEK
• WISDOM AND APOCALYPTIC
• WISDOM AND BIBLICAL THEOLOGY
• WISDOM AND COVENANT
• WISDOM AND HISTORY
• WISDOM AND PROPHECY
• WISDOM OF SOLOMON
• WISDOM POEM
• WISDOM PSALMS.
• WISDOM SOURCES
• WISDOM THEOLOGY
• WOMAN FOLLY.
• WOMAN WISDOM AND WOMAN FOLLY
• WOMEN
• WORDPLAY
• WORSHIP
• X, Y, Z
• XERXES.
• ZION