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Friendship in the Hebrew Bible

by Saul M. Olyan

  • Hardback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • 16.3 x 24.2 x 2.1 cm

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Friendship, though a topic of considerable humanistic and cross disciplinary interest in contemporary scholarship, has been largely ignored by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, possibly because of its complexity and elusiveness. Filling a significant gap in our knowledge and understanding of biblical texts, Saul M. Olyan provides this original, accessible analysis of a key form of social relationship. In this thorough and compelling assessment, Olyan analyzes a wide range of texts, including prose narratives, prophetic materials, psalms, pre-Hellenistic wisdom collections, and the Hellenistic-era wisdom book Ben Sira. This in-depth, contextually sensitive, and theoretically engaged study explores how the expectations of friends and family members overlap and differ, examining, among other things, characteristics that make the friend a distinct social actor; failed friendship; and friendships in narratives such as those of Ruth and Naomi, and Jonathan and David. Olyan presents a comprehensive look at what constitutes friendship in the Hebrew Bible.
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  • Author

    Saul M. Olyan

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Yale University Press

  • Published

    January 2017

  • Weight

    409g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    16.3 x 24.2 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780300182682

  • ISBN-10

    0300182686

  • Eden Code

    4450170

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