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15 Cards in this Set
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What classifies text as wisdom literature?
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writings were extremely rare in 2000 BC or earlier, so anything that written around that time must have been very important.
Proverbs do not necessarily have authors. |
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Classes of wisdom lit
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Royal/Elite court and within the family.
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Purposes of wisdom lit
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Debate (court), entertainment (in the form of debate), taxonomies (organizing and categorizing), ritual, polemic (debate against enemies), official counsel (for the elite)
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Wisdom lit themes
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work ethics, marriage, social injustice/justice, familial peace and relationships
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Instruction of Any
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warning against the "strange woman"
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Complaints of K-S
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there's only repetition and this is a suffering reality
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Scribe schools
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Often familial apprenticeships
Proverbs used for educational purposes Two tracks: monolingual (economic transactions) and bilingual scribes (bilingual scribed could copy proverbs from other cultures) Redacted wisdom lit (ex: Eccl) |
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Proverbs authorship problems
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references to the "words of the wise" or "men of Hezekiah" - thus, Proverbs is more of an anthology. Proverbs are passed down as sayings without a particular author.
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Eccl authorship problems
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aramaisms, persian loanwords, no reference to israelite history, and connections with greek philosophy
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Proverbs parallelism
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synonymous: "thought-rhyming" - saying something and then repeating it
synthetic: two things of similar type antithetical: saying something and then saying the opposite |
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Exceptions to the theme of "do good = get good"
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Saving your $$ = more in want. It's better to spend carelessly (Prov 11:24)
Prov 16:4 "Good is good" is contradicted by "Good makes bad things" |
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Yitron
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means "profit" - Qohelet uses this a lot because he's like "what does it profit you? NOTHING! HEVELLLL!!"
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Qohelet on the Afterlife
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"save me from death or you won't get any praise and I know you're into that"
Sheol = death, not necessarily hell Qohelet's stance: he doesn't know. Agnostic. |
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Eccl and Greek Philosophy
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Stoicism: focus on the individual - pleasure and pain, free will is restricted, history is repetition, doctrine of four elements: Eccl 1:4-7
Determinism: events are pre-ordained by God Epicurianism: pursuit of pleasure - we're just a bunch of atoms |
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Features of wisdom psalms
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1. ahre formula
2. numerical sayings 3. better-than sayings 4. address of teacher -> son 5. acrostics 6. simple comparisons 7. admonistions 8. rasha and sadiq 9. discussion of two ways 10. preoccupation w/ retribution 11. practical advice 12. fear of YHWH = Torah observance |
