Friendship in the Hebrew Bible

by Saul M. Olyan

The first comprehensive study of friendship in the Hebrew Bible

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300182686
• ISBN13: 9780300182682
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"