Tag Archives: Wisdom Literature

Who needs to listen to the wisdom?

Proverbs 2 is for me one of the chapters that really commands us to listen. When I studied Classical Greek, one of the sentences that our teacher explained to us was that we have one mouth and two ears because we need to listen more and speak less! The words in proverbs 2 are so [...]

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Proverbs 1- it’s a matter of life!!

The book of proverbs includes a lot of fables and allegories with a one direct goal: to teach the smart people to be righteous, especially when they are young and there are some risks on the way of being mature and adult! Traditionally the book was written by the hand of King Solomon, whom was [...]

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Where does the wisdom come from?

One of the questions that arise all the time is what are we the human beings? Are we the creatures of The Lord or those we are descendents of the monkeys? One more thing that is really important is the question about the mind, our brain, where did he come from? In the book of [...]

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Biblical Wisdom Literature

The Wisdom literature of the Bible was not necessarily officially defined as such in biblical times, but can be described as those books which include different kinds of advice which is based on wisdom and experience. The books included in this category are Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job, and from the Apocrypha – the Proverbs of [...]

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