Wisdom and Psalms

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Wisdom and Psalms

• Poetic Writings

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Psalms
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Identifying Psalms

• Chapter numbering
• Hebrew and Greek
• Verse numbering
• Headings
• Authorship
• Inclusion in collections
• Musical directions

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Hebrew Poetry

• Parallelism
• Patterns now known from Canaanites
• No recognizable rhyme
• Syllable counts
• Dispute about metre
• Inclusio

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Form / Genre

• laments, penitential
• hymns, praise, thanksgiving
• wisdom, torah, ethical
• historical, covenant renewal
• coronation, liturgical

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Other songbooks

• Lamentations
• all, except 5, alphabetic acrostics
• Song of Songs
• meaning and canonization

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Wisdom Literature
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Features

• Internationalist
• Minimal interest in history and cult
• Thought
• But pragmatic
• In Israel
• Solomon 1 Kings 33-14
• Role of elders / wise Jer 1818 Ezek 726

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Proverbs

• Introduction 1 9
• Possibly latest
• Proverbs of Solomon
• 101 - 2216 25 29
• Possibly earliest
• Words of the Wise 2217-2434
• Assorted foreign wisdom 30 - 31

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Ecclesiastes

• Skeptical
• Pessimistic
• Apparent editing
• By orthodox
• 129-13

• Vanity of vanities
• 11-11
• Time for every matter
• 31-8
• Remember strength
• 121-8
• Summary
• 91-12

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Job

• Prose introduction 1-2
• Job and 3 friends in 3 speech cycles
• 3 11 12 20 21 31
• Elihus speech 32 37
• God out of the whirlwind 38-41
• Jobs submission 421-6
• Prose conclusion 427-17

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Deuterocanonical Wisdom Books

• Jesus ben Sirach Ecclesiasticus
• Wisdom of Solomon