The IVP Bible Dictionary Series: Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry, Writings
The IVP Bible Dictionary Series: Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry, Writings
Editors: Longman III, Tremper and Enns, Peter
Publication Year: 2008
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Single-User Purchase Price:
$60.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$90.00
ISBN: 978-0-8308-1783-2
Category: Religion & Theology - Judaism
Image Count:
15
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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