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Book Review: The Culture of Unbelie

interested him. Social institutions and context are taken up in the papers on primitive democracy and the social background of wisdom literature as well as in his study of the growth of the Bible. Gordis turns to rhetoric and style in his treatments of biblical poetry, the heptad as a style element, and the use of quotations (by quotations he means "passages that cite the speech or thought of a subject, actual or hypothetical, past or present, which is distinct from the context in which it is embedded"). The other areas of concern in these pages are the prophets, with articles on the composition of Amos, Hosea's marriage, Isaiah as world statesman, and Micah's eschatology, and of course wisdom—two articles on Job and one on Koheleth. Articles on the Song of Songs and the knowledge of good and evil round out the book. A final feature to be noted is that many of the articles are not confined to scholarly discussions but go on to pursue the continuing ramifications of Gordis' conclusions for human life today.