The Wisdom Literature

by Kathleen M O'Connor

Overview

This volume presents the spiritualties, implicit or explicit, of the wisdom books of the Old Testament. An additional goal is to explore the vast and frequently overlooked resource that wisdom literature provides for contemporary believers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814655719
Publisher:	Liturgical Press
Publication date:	10/01/1990
Series:	Message of Biblical Spirituality , #5
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	199
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Kathleen M. O'Connor is author of several books including The Wisdom Literature (Liturgical Press, 1990), Jeremiah: Pain and Promise, and Lamentations and the Tears of the World. She is the William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament, emerita, at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia, and also taught at the Maryknoll School of Theology in Ossining, New York. She is active in the Catholic Biblical Association of America and the Society of Biblical Literature.