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Proverbs and Wisdom Literature Insights

This document discusses wisdom literature in the Old Testament, including Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes. It notes their common vocabulary, worldview focused on divine order rather than salvation history, and characterization of mankind in general under God. Proverbs contain traditional wisdom passed down through generations to preserve moral order and are mostly poetry. Job and Ecclesiastes reflectively question the order of retribution theology and consider immanent versus eternal thinking. Wisdom is pursued through revelation, observation, tradition, and experience learning from mistakes.

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Proverbs and Wisdom Literature Insights

This document discusses wisdom literature in the Old Testament, including Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes. It notes their common vocabulary, worldview focused on divine order rather than salvation history, and characterization of mankind in general under God. Proverbs contain traditional wisdom passed down through generations to preserve moral order and are mostly poetry. Job and Ecclesiastes reflectively question the order of retribution theology and consider immanent versus eternal thinking. Wisdom is pursued through revelation, observation, tradition, and experience learning from mistakes.

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What have you learned about learning to understand proverbs, riddles, sayings, words of
the wise?

Prayer
The Solomon Problem

- Solomon’s fallacy
- Solomon’s sin (1 Kings 11)

Wisdom Literature: Job, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs


- Common vocabulary
- Common worldview
• Focus on divine order
• Not so much salvation history (like rest of OT)
- Common character
• International, humanistic
• Mankind in general under God
- Literary in nature
• Unlike folk sayings that sometimes show up in History books
Proverbs
- Traditional wisdom
• Passing baton from generation to generation
• Preserving moral order
- Mostly poetry
• Archetypal, universal
- Proverbs for experience akin to Adamic (and Solomonic) naming of objects
• Finding/assimilating order to a complex/chaotic existence
• Transmission of categories of experience

Job & Ecclesiastes


- Reflective wisdom
• Questioning of order
- Retribution theology
• Immanent vs Eternal thinking
- Ecclesiastes mostly prose; Job a hybrid
• Particular to event, history

Pursuing Wisdom (& Flavoring Your Discussions)


- Revelation
- Observation
- Tradition
- Experience (Learning from Mistakes)


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