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Robert B.Y. Scott, The Way of Wisdom in the Old Testament (New York: Macmillan, 1971). Job and Ecclesiastes are characterized by Scott as “Wisdom in revolt.”

On the question of the definition of Wisdom and the discussion of Job as a Wisdom text, see Katharine J. Dell, The Book of Job as Sceptical Literature, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 197 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1991).

See M. Bockmuehl, “The Noahide Commandment and New Testament Ethics,” Revue Biblique 102 (1995), pp. 72–101, esp. 44–95; J. Taylor, Les Actes des Deux Apôtres (Paris: Gabalda, 1994), vol. 5, pp. 209–214; C.K. Barrett, “The Apostolic Decree of Acts 15:20, ” Australian Biblical Review 35 (1987), pp. 50–59; E. Haenchen, The Acts of the Apostles (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1971).

C.H. Brichto, “On Slaughter and Sacrifice, Blood and Atonement,” Hebrew Union College Annual 47 (1976), pp. 19–56.

See Ancient Near Eastern Texts, ed. James B. Pritchard (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 1969), pp. 75, 77.

Tosefta H|Dagiga 2.3–4; trans. revised from Halperin, Faces of the Chariot, p. 31. On the mystical connotations of this text, see J.M. Baumgarten, “The Qumran Sabbath Shirot and Rabbinic Merkabah Traditions,” Revue de Qumran 13 (1988), pp. 209–213.

See Gershom G. Scholem, Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and Talmudic Tradition (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1960), p. 38; and David J. Halperin, The Faces of the Chariot: Early Jewish Responses to Ezekiel’s Vision (Tübingen: Mohr, 1988), p. 26.

See Roland H. Bainton, “The Bible in the Reformation,” in The Cambridge History of the Bible, vol. 3, ed. S.L. Greenslade (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1963), p. 34.

The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan (Abot de Rabbi Nathan) Version B, ed. and trans. Anthony J. Saldarini (Leiden: Brill, 1975), p. 182.