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Title: WISDOM LITERATURE


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WISDOM LITERATURE
  • Course Overview

2
Wisdom Literature in the Hebrew Bible
  • Also called Poetical Books

3
The Wisdom Books
  • JOB
  • PSALMS
  • PROVERBS
  • ECCLESIASTES
  • SONG OF SOLOMON

4
JOB
  • Epic Poem
  • Oldest Literature in Bible
  • Five Scenes
  • Three Cycles of Speeches in Scene 4
  • Main Subject is Gods Sovereignty
  • Does Not Answer Question of Human Suffering
  • Contains More on Creation than Genesis

5
PSALMS
  • Hebrew Hymnal Tehillim
  • Five Books
  • Dates 10 8 Centuries BC
  • Multiple Authorship

6
Psalms were used for
  • Pilgrimages
  • Temple Worship
  • Private Worship
  • Personal Prayers

7
PROVERBS
  • Dates from 10-8 Centuries BC
  • Collection of Wise Sayings
  • Seven Main Divisions
  • Teachings
  • God, Man, Education, Religion,
  • Self-restraint, Hard Work, Morals

8
Hebrew Word Maschal
  • likeness
  • comparison
  • symbolic statement
  • well known, in general use

9
ECCLESIASTES
  • From 10TH Century BC
  • Author Solomon
  • Message Lifes Meaning
  • Hebrew Name is Koheleth
  • Key Word Vanity

10
SONG OF SOLOMON
  • Written by Solomon
  • Ballad Love Poem
  • About Peasant Girl and Solomon
  • Allegory of Christ and Church

11
Five Main Types of Parallelisms
  • Synonymous
  • Analytical
  • Antithetic
  • Synthetic
  • Climactic

12
Three Types of Hebrew Poetry
  • Lyric, or Song
  • (Used in Worship)
  • Didactic
  • (Teaching, such as Psalm 119)
  • Dramatic
  • (Job, Song of Solomon)

13
Acrostics
  • Common literary structure of Poems
  • Each verse starts with next letter of alphabet
  • Examples
  • Lamentations
  • Proverbs 31
  • Psalm 119

14
Course Method
  • Notebook
  • Assignments
  • Review Quizzes
  • Exams
  • Course Paper
  • Group Work

15
FOR YOUR NOTEBOOKS
  • AUTHOR Historical person
  • LOCATION Uz (Saudi Arabia)
  • DATE Approx. 2200 BC
  • COMPILER Moses?
  • LITERARY TYPE Epic Poem
  • STRUCTURE 5 Scenes
  • JOBS AGE 60? 140 200 (approx)

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Notes on Job, continued
  • Scene 1 Ch 11-5 Great Sheik
  • Scene 2 Ch 16-12 Cosmic Meeting
  • Scene 3 Ch 113Ch 210 Disasters
  • Scene 4 Chs 211-3724 3 Cycles of speeches by
    Jobs Friends
  • Scene 5 Chs 38-42 God answers and Job finds
    peace and restoration

17
Notes on Job, continued
  • Jobs friends
  • Eliphaz from Teman
  • Bildad from Shuah
  • Zophar from Naamah
  • Elihu from Buz
  • Jobs daughters
  • Jemimah, Kezziah, Keren-Happuch

18
Notes on Job, continued
  • MAIN MESSAGE
  • Gods Sovereign right as Creator to give or take
    away
  • Does not answer problem of human suffering

19
Notes on Job, continued
  • KEY PASSAGES
  • Response in pain 121
  • Source of pain 27
  • Expectation beyond death
  • 1923-27
  • Creation of Earth 384-7

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END OF OVERVIEW
  • Presented by
  • Doug Chatham, Ph.D., D.Min.
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