tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31033245.post116118688525826523..comments2023-04-25T11:28:59.146-07:00Comments on The Quixotic Pastor: Buried Treasures .... in the Book of Proverbs????Reverend Dona Quixotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00236153172787772792noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31033245.post-1161210778970604142006-10-18T15:32:00.000-07:002006-10-18T15:32:00.000-07:00In my 4th year of seminary (5 years ago) I took a ...In my 4th year of seminary (5 years ago) I took a course on Wisdom Literature. The main text that we used was <B>The Tree of Life: An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature</B> by Roland E. Murphy, O.Carm. ISBN 0-8028-4192-9.<BR/><BR/>We spent some time with each of Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes and from what we Prots call the Apocrypha, Ben Sira and Wisdom of Solomon.<BR/><BR/>I quite like how Job and Ecclesiastes sometimes say things a lot differently, almost opposite, from the way Proverbs says things. From Proverbs you can easily come away with the view "be good and you'll be rewarded, be bad and you'll be punished" but Job and Ecclesiastes say that there aren't such clear cut correlations.<BR/><BR/>Way to go tackling wisdom literature. I took that course in seminary but have rarely looked in or thought about any of those books in our Bibles.Tom in Ontariohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12154434042794825551noreply@blogger.com