The Development of Wisdom Literature

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course represents an opportunity to explore the richness of the Wisdom tradition found in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. An introduction to critical and comparative issues in the study of Wisdom literature and the reading and discussion of texts from books such as Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes will be accompanied by an exploration of how these texts have been employed by later tradition to answer the question: where can Wisdom be found?