Review of Kampen, Wisdom Literature

BOOK REVIEW:

John Kampen. Wisdom Literature. Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2010. xiii + 390 pp. $36.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8028-4384-5.

Reviewed by Matthew Goff (The Florida State University)
Published on H-Judaic (March, 2012)
Commissioned by Jason Kalman

A Sage Study
John Kampen, a senior scholar who teaches at Methodist Theological School in Ohio, has written the first commentary on the wisdom literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls. As such, this is an important book that will prove very useful to scholars and students who work on the subject.

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This is the second published volume in the Eerdmans Commentaries on the Dead Sea Scrolls series. The first was my volume, Liturgical Works, published back in 2001. I am delighted that another volume is finally out.