OT EXAM DEUX

Question 1

4 ON WISDOM

Answer 1

Two Types: Mainstream and Skeptical
Experience and Probability
Tensions
Virtue, Vice, and Prudence

Question 2

WISDOM LITERATURE

Answer 2

OT: Proverbs, Job, Qoheleth
Honorable mention: Song of Songs (but not so much)
Old Testament Apocrypha: Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach

Question 3

The Social Locations of Wisdom

Answer 3

Court
School
Home/Family/Clan

Question 4

Wisdom as an International Phenomenon

EXTRA-BIBLICAL

Answer 4

Sumer, Assyria, Babylonia, Egypt, etc., etc.
PROVERBS 22:17-23:11
The Instruction of Amenemope

Question 5

Wisdom as an International Phenomenon

INTER-BIBLICAL

Answer 5

Solomon as patron saint

Question 6

Wisdom as a Worldview

Answer 6

Poor Richard’s Almanac

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Question 7

Sumero-Akkadian Proverbs (Mesopotamia )

Answer 7

If I instruct him, he is only what I begot,
 if I polish him, he is only a blockhead.

Question 8

Trends in Biblical Wisdom

Answer 8

Traditional and Skeptical

Question 9

Two Basic Convictions about trends in Wisdom:

KNOW IT

Answer 9

Confidence about order in the cosmos and in human existence (esp. Traditional); deeds =actions

Realistic awareness of the limits of human power and understanding (esp. Radical)(Extensively in Job and Eccl) Human action cannot control God.

Question 10

The Core Conviction/Observation of Traditional Wisdom

Answer 10

It operates with a critical evaluation of human experience.
Comes close to natural theology.
Observations about God through observation of nature.