Order
The idea of order permeates Old Testament Wisdom Literature. This is true especially for Proverbs. In Job, this conception is brought into a crisis, whereas it is critically scrutinized in Ecclesiastes. In both cases, however, order is not rejected in principle, but its understanding deepened through the integration of seemingly contradictory insights and experiences. This deeper insight is accompanied by the theologization of wisdom, which enables the revelational and apophatic character of the biblical doctrine of God to become evident. God becomes a constitutive aspect of sapiential thinking, and yet the mysterious character of the divine reality remains unfathomable. Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon develop these two aspects each in their own manner, and explicitly connect them with Torah and Prophecy.