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    "slug": "wisdom",
    "name": "Wisdom Books",
    "stream": "egyptian-hebrew",
    "epoch_reflected": "egypto-chaldean",
    "epoch_written": "greco-latin",
    "form": "poetry and wisdom literature",
    "tradition": "Jewish / Christian",
    "author": null,
    "year_approx": -500,
    "note": "Five poetic-wisdom books: Job's theodicy, the 150 Psalms, Solomon's Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs. The lyric and contemplative voice within the Hebrew canon. ASV (1901).",
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    {
      "num": 1,
      "slug": "job",
      "title": "Job",
      "words": 20348,
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      "subtitle": "Job — the righteous sufferer and the divine speeches",
      "blurb": "The prose prologue (the wager between God and the *satan*); the long poetic dialogue between Job and his three friends and the young Elihu; the divine speeches out of the whirlwind (chs 38-41) — *Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?*; Job's surrender; the epilogue restoring his fortunes. The Bible's central theodicy."
    },
    {
      "num": 2,
      "slug": "psalms",
      "title": "Psalms",
      "words": 48169,
      "url": "/sources/old-testament/wisdom/psalms/",
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      "subtitle": "Psalms — the prayer book of Israel and the church",
      "blurb": "The hundred and fifty psalms — the prayer book of Israel that became the prayer book of the church. Hymns of praise, individual and corporate laments, royal psalms, wisdom psalms, songs of ascents, psalms of penitence, the great Hallel. The Psalter divided into five books echoing the Torah."
    },
    {
      "num": 3,
      "slug": "proverbs",
      "title": "Proverbs",
      "words": 16933,
      "url": "/sources/old-testament/wisdom/proverbs/",
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      "subtitle": "Proverbs — the wisdom literature of practical life",
      "blurb": "The classical Hebrew wisdom collection. The long opening discourse on the personified figure of Wisdom (chs 1-9) — *I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was*. The proverbs proper, mostly two-line antithetical maxims. Closes with the *Eshet Hayil* — the song of the virtuous woman (31:10-31)."
    },
    {
      "num": 4,
      "slug": "ecclesiastes",
      "title": "Ecclesiastes",
      "words": 6086,
      "url": "/sources/old-testament/wisdom/ecclesiastes/",
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      "subtitle": "Ecclesiastes — *vanity of vanities* — Qohelet's meditation",
      "blurb": "The voice of Qohelet — *the Preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem*. *Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.* The radical critical wisdom — labour, pleasure, wealth, wisdom itself examined and found wanting under the sun. *To everything there is a season* (ch 3). Closes: *Fear God and keep his commandments — for this is the whole of man.*"
    },
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      "num": 5,
      "slug": "song-of-solomon",
      "title": "Song of Solomon",
      "words": 2888,
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      "subtitle": "Song of Solomon — *the song of songs*",
      "blurb": "The biblical erotic-mystical poem — *the song of songs, which is Solomon's*. The dialogue of bride and bridegroom — read literally as love-poetry of the deepest order, allegorically by Jewish tradition as God and Israel, by Christian tradition as Christ and the soul (or Christ and the Church). The supreme love-song of the Hebrew canon."
    }
  ]
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