Wisdom Literature

by John Kampen

This volume is the first comprehensive commentary on the wisdom texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls. John Kampen provides original translations of these works -- most of which are drawn from an extensive collection of fragments that only became widely accessible for study in 1991 -- augmenting them with scholarly notes, discussions of key terms, and detailed commentary. Kampen relates the body of wisdom literature discovered at Qumranto the larger...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802843840
• ISBN13: 9780802843845
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"