{"product_id":"9780300184228","title":"Friendship in the Hebrew Bible","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first comprehensive study of friendship in the Hebrew Bible  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 form of social relationship. In this thorough and compelling assessment, Olyan analyzes a wide range of texts, including prose narratives, prophetic materials, psalms, pre-Hellenistic wisdom collections, and the Hellenistic-era wisdom book Ben Sira. This in-depth, contextually sensitive, and theoretically engaged study explores how the expectations of friends and family members overlap and differ, examining, among other things, characteristics that make the friend a distinct social actor; failed friendship; and friendships in narratives such as those of Ruth and Naomi, and Jonathan and David. Olyan presents a comprehensive look at what constitutes friendship in the Hebrew Bible. ","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075974611184,"sku":"9780300184228","price":29.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780300184228_p0.jpg?v=1763670223","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780300184228","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}