When the Morning Stars Sang : Essays in Honor of Choon Leong Seow on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- An Intellectual Biography and the Curriculum Vitae of Choon Leong Seow -- Choon Leong Seow: An Appreciation -- I: Job -- The Speaker in Job 28 -- Metaphors of Illness and Wellness in Job -- Blessing and Justice in Job: In/commensurable? -- Job Spoke the Truth about God (Job 42:7-8) -- The Kerygma of the Book of Job -- The Reception of Job in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- The Book of Job and Two Twentieth-Century British Oratorios -- II: Proverbs and Ecclesiastes -- Proverbs 1-9 as Instruction for a Young Man and for "Everyman" -- From Epistemology to Wisdom Theology: The Composition of Proverbs 10 -- On יֵשׁ of Reflection in the Book of Proverbs -- Why is it So Difficult to Read Ecclesiastes? -- A Rhetoric of Indecision: Reflections on God as Judge in Qoheleth -- Solomon's Wise Words in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature -- When Wisdom Fails -- III: Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon -- The Formation of the Scribal Self in Ben Sira -- Translation, Reception, and the Historiography of Early Judaism: The Wisdom of Ben Sira and Old Greek Job as Case Studies -- God and Evil in the Wisdom of Solomon -- IV: Wisdom's Echoes in the Hebrew Bible and Semitic Inscriptions -- The Ambivalence of Human Wisdom: Genesis 2-3 as a Sapiential Text -- What is the Place of Wisdom and Torah in the Psalter? -- Traces of an Original Allegorical Meaning of the Song of Songs -- Royal Inscriptions in the Hebrew Bible and Mesopotamia: Reflections on Presence, Function, and Self-Critique -- Agriculture and Wisdom: The Case of the "Gezer Calendar" -- List of Contributors -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Subjects.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

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