OT3114 & OT3116 Wisdom Literature

Class Handouts
(Note: Hebrew on these handouts will not be readable except by those students who have Bible Windows or have downloaded the Silver Mountain Hebrew Font. To download this font, go to http://www.silvermnt.com/fonts.htm)

Wisdom Lecture #1 Intro: What is Wisdom, Who is Wise, and How Does One Read a Proverb?

Wisdom Lecture #2  Proverbs 10-31: Introduced and Explored

Wisdom Lecture #3-4: Proverbs 1-9: Woman Wisdom, Woman Folly; and the Overall Context of Proverbs 1-9

Words for Wisdom and Folly in Proverbs

Recent Proverbs Commentaries

Wisdom Lecture #5: Job: Prologue and Lament

Wisdom Lecture #6: Job: Job’s Case and Scholarly Responses

Wisdom Lecture #7 Job: God's Answer, Job's Response, and the Epilogue

Wisdom Lecture #8 Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes): What’s It All About, and Is There Hope?

Wisdom Lecture #9 Sirach: History, Culture and Wisdom, Torah;  Psalms and Judaism

Wisdom Psalms Classification and Bibliography

Issues of Canon

Wisdom Lecture #10 Wisdom of Solomon: Wisdom Encounters Hellenism

Wisdom Lecture #11 On Wisdom and Jesus: Teachings, Christology, and the Cross

Wisdom Lecture #12 On Wisdom and Jesus Continued

Wisdom Lecture #13 Questions to Carry Us Forward