This article, based on a research report at the 1999 CBA annual meeting at Notre Dame, Indiana, approaches the topic from the point of view of the impact of the Israelite world view on the data of biblical theology: Sheol and immortality; the heavenly court and angelology; the levels of interpretation of the Song of Songs; and finally, discontinuity within the wisdom literature.
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