Course studies the biblical genre of Wisdom as expressed in the Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Book of Wisdom, Wisdom of Sirach, Baruch, and parts of the Psalms. The study will include the nature of the Scriptural genre of Wisdom as normative direct address, including single sentences, proverbial and hortatory, and in longer discourses and poems, with discussion also of the interplay between theology and philosophy in these books.
Semester Offered