Lucas, Ernest,Exploring the Old Testament. III.The Psalms and Wisdom Literature

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-85
Author(s):  
Johanna Jones
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Wisdom Literature

scholarly journals Riglyne vir die prediking oor wysheidsliteratuur, toegespits op die boek Spreuke

1991 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. F. Van Rooy
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Wisdom Literature

The aim of this paper is to give guidelines for preaching on the wisdom literature of the Old Testament, concentrating on the book of Proverbs. As background for the guidelines, wisdom and wisdom literature are defined and attention is given to the forms of wisdom literature, problems regarding the preaching on wisdom literature and relevant information on the book of Proverbs. In many circles Proverbs is largely ignored in preaching to the detriment of the church's preaching. Preaching on wisdom forces the preacher to apply the guidelines practically and to touch on the daily life of the members of his congregation. Twelve guidelines are given and they are applied to three examples from Proverbs.

scholarly journals Pieter M. Venter’s contribution to Old Testament Studies – an appreciation

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wouter C. Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Second Temple ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Interpretive Community ◽  
Second Temple Literature ◽  
Critical Theology ◽  
The Church ◽  
Old Testament Studies

The contribution that Professor Pieter M. Venter has made to the study of the Old Testament during his academic and ecclesiastic career is reviewed. After a brief biographical introduction, the article surveys the development of his research interests, focusing specifically on his contributions to the study of wisdom literature, narratives and narratology, second temple literature, the formation of the canon, and Old Testament Theology. The review concludes with reference to his way of practising critical theology, taking full cognisance of research into the linguistic, historical critical, narratological and ideological aspects of Old Testament texts, but always with a sensitivity for the needs of the church as interpretive community.

scholarly journals Onderskeid (בין) in die Ou Testament

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ananda Geyser-Fouche
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
Textual Research ◽  
The Church

Discernment () in the Old Testament. Discernment is one of the concepts that urge each and everyone to think critically and anew. The concept of a never-ending spiral of thinking is very familiar in the circles of reformed churches. This concept is also known from the wisdom literature in the Old Testament. The realisation that you do not know, means approaching the ability to grasp something of wisdom. In order to find out what the Old Testament is saying about ‘discern’, I did a textual research on the two Hebrew words: and I apply the results of this research to the context of the church (with specific reference to the ‘Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika’ [NH Church]) attempting to find out what the church’s responsibility is with regards to what is really important (i.e. discernment).

Creation

2019 ◽  
pp. 511-524
Author(s):  
Paul M. Blowers
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Many ◽  
Sacred History

Early Christian interpretation of Scripture on the theme of creation not surprisingly gave considerable attention to the Genesis account of the origins of the world, in part to counter the claims of Graeco-Roman cosmology, but more importantly to expound the latent theological meaning of the many details of the biblical cosmogony. But patristic exegetes were also keen on the fact that ‘creation’ in the Bible implied far more than beginnings; indeed, it designated the whole economy (oikonomia) of the Creator’s ongoing relation to the creation as set forth in sacred history and as requiring the further interpretative lenses of Christology, soteriology, and eschatology. Early Christian interpreters plumbed a wide variety of Old Testament texts beyond Genesis (especially the Psalms, Deutero-Isaiah, and the Wisdom literature). In their New Testament commentary they focused on such motifs as the subjection of creation to ‘vanity’, the work of Jesus Christ in recapitulating God’s creative purposes, and the eschatological renewal and transformation of the created universe in its relation to human salvation.

The Roots of Solomonic ‘Wisdom’ in the Pre-exilic Period (Focusing on Proverbs)

2020 ◽  
pp. 92-111
Author(s):  
Katharine J. Dell
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Near East ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Relative Dating ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Wisdom Tradition ◽  
Relationship Of

The concern of this chapter is to explore the possibility of a vibrant and living wisdom tradition in the pre-exilic period. Whilst this used to be a ‘given’ of scholarship, the tendency towards later and later dating in recent scholarship has led to the need to reaffirm such ideas. Three approaches are taken—first a literary-historical one; second a theological one, and finally a comparative one. The focus is on the book of Proverbs, since it is arguments on the relative dating of parts of Proverbs that are of major concern, as well as the wider issue of whether the thought-world of wisdom was in the consciousness of early Israelites. It is found that there is a closer relationship of ‘wisdom literature’ to mainstream Yahwism than has often been thought with the key theological theme of God as creator providing an essential link. Links of the theological outlook of Proverbs with other parts of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and with the ancient cultures of the ancient Near East confirm these conclusions.

Order

2021 ◽  
pp. 82-100
Author(s):  
Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Doctrine Of God ◽  
Wisdom Of Solomon

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.

scholarly journals Gaan na die mier, kyk na sy weë en word wys: Metafoor of paradigma?

2013 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Buitendag
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Epistemic Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Constructive Empiricism ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
The One ◽  
Point Of Departure

Go to the ant, consider her ways, and be wise. Metaphor or paradigm? This article takes as its point of departure two citations. The one is from Marshall and Zohar’s contention that the wave-particle dualism is more than a metaphor and the other is from Clayton claiming that indeterminacy was not merely a temporary epistemic problem, but reflected an inherent indeterminacy of the physical world itself. What does it mean if it is not a mere way of speaking? The author of this article departs from the premise that the task of systematic theology is the endeavour to understand reality and that this is a collective enterprise together with other sciences as well. A constructive empiricism could indeed lead to an understanding of reality where reality is more than merely idealistically conceived. Truth is therefore to be replaced with a pragmatic, but value-laden concept of understanding or comprehension. This has the effect that both epistemology and ontology have to be revisited and subsequently panentheism too. The argument finds its niche in Old Testament wisdom literature and Proverbs 6:6 forms the lens of reference. The late South African ethologist Eugène Marais’s epic work, The Soul of the Ant, is applied to illustrate such a proposed epistemic community.

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