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aspects to a covenant between higher and lesser ruler:

- preamble identifying the king giving the treaty


- historical prologue listing the king's gracious deeds to vassal ruler


- legal stipulations binding the vassal ruler


- list of gods who witnessed the treaty


- list of curses/blessings for those who keep/break the treaty

there were wisdom traditions not only in Israel, but also in:

Mesopotamia, Egypt, Canaan

three kinds of parallelism in biblical poetry

synonymous (repetition)


antithetical


synthetic (going deeper 2nd x)

themes of wisdom lit

- how do I live my life?


- happiness


- fear of the Lord


- suffering


- personification of Wisdom

Proverbs: date

- ch. 10-29 have ancient proverbs from collections dating from 10C-6C


- ch. 1-9 are much newer: PE


- final form: mid-4C

Proverbs: origin of the proverbs:

royal court schools?


family

Proverbs: wisdom as having a three-fold dimension:

- sapiential (knowledge)


- ethical (action)


- religious (piety)

characteristics of Proverbs ch. 1-9:

- wisdom as gift from God


- the two ways: one good, one bad


- personification of Lady Wisdom (ch. 7)


- Wisdom's hymn (ch. 8)

Clifford's definition of a proverb:

a concise statement of an apparent truththat has currency

parallels to Proverbs:

Egypt, "Wisdom of Amenemope" (pre 11C)

Job: dating

- hard to date


- bw 7C-PE?

near eastern parallels to Job

- Egypt: Dispute bw a Man and his Ba


- Sumer: The Sumerian Job


- Babylon: Babylonian Theodicy


------- this 3rd one is the closest parallel: personal, dramatic, inaccessibility of gods' minds

does Job have a personified wisdom passage?

yes: ch. 28


- "no one knows her place; hiddenness; the ocean says, 'she is not in me'"

Qoheleth/Ecclesiastes: dating

4C-3C (persian period)

genre of Ecclesiastes:

"royal pseudo-autobiography"

parallels of Ecclesiastes:

Mesopotamia:


- the "tablet-house" produced similarly cynical satires


- Gilgamesh: royal pseudo-autobiography

Song of Songs dating:

7C?

Song of Songs: how interpreted?

- human love


- God's love for his people


- God's love for the soul

parallels to Song of Songs:

New Kingdom Egyptian love songs

Sirach: dating

- hebrew original: 175 BC


- greek translation: 117 BC

what are the deuterocanonical books?

Tobit


Judith




Baruch


Sirach


Wisdom




Maccabees 1 & 2

overall aim of Sirach

- offering a comprehensive guide deeply steeped in Jewish Tradition for every circumstance of life




- you want wisdom? You can find it in the Torah, in the tradition of our fathers

characteristics of Sirach

- "to fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom"


- concern for temple cult / priesthood


- traditionalist


- proto-saducee? (no afterlife)

Sirach's presentation of personified wisdom:

Sirach 24:


- coming forth from the mouth of God


- looking for a place to dwell - pitching her tent in Jerusalem

general outline of Sirach

1-43: moral instruction


44-50: praise of creation and Israel's heroes


51: two appendices

Book of Wisdom: dating

30 BC?

Book of Wisdom: place/language of composition

- greek


- Alexandria

main goal of Book of Wisdom:

- trying to reconcile greek wisdom with jewish faith

outline of Book of Wisdom:

- reward of the righteous (eternal life)


- praise of wisdom (Solomon's prayer)


- God's providence during the Exodus


- God's mercy


- condemning idolatry (idolaters are punished by the things they idolize)

how is Tobit a wisdom book?

- good works will not go unrewarded

Baruch is a marriage bw:

wisdom tradition and deuteronomist tradition

Baruch has a personification of wisdom section

yes

greek/hebrew words for wisdom:

sophia


hokmah

wisdom tradition in 1 Kings:

Solomon

personifications of wisdom:

Proverbs 8


- Lady Wisdom / Lady Folly - "come to me!"




Job 28


- "where is Wisdom to be found?"


- "the ocean says, she is not in me...."


- only God knows




Sirach 24


- coming from the mouth of God, seeking a home


- pitching her tent in Israel




Wisdom 6-9


- praise of Wisdom


- Solomon's prayer

outline of Job:

prelude


Poetic dialogue bw job and friends


Elihu speeches


God's speech