Lesson 1: Introduction to Wisdom Literature

Question 1

What are the 5 Catholic Principles of Interpretation?

Answer 1

(1) Dual authorship
(2) Canonical exegesis
(3) In the light of the analogy of faith
(4) In the light of Church teaching
(5) Four senses

Question 2

What are:
(1) Dual authorship
(2) Canonical exegesis
(3) In the light of the analogy of faith
(4) In the light of Church teaching
(5) Four sense

Answer 2

5 Catholic Principles of Interpretation

Question 3

What are the 12 phases of Biblical history?

Answer 3

Creation
Flood
Patriarchs
Exodus
Conquest
Judges
Kingdom(s)/Temple
Exile
Return from Exile
Maccabees
Christ
Church

Question 4

What are:
Creation, Flood, Patriarchs, Exodus, Conquest, Judges, Kingdom(s)/Temple, Exile, Return from Exile, Maccabees, Christ, Church

Answer 4

The 12 phases of Biblical history

Question 5

What is the paradigm for Wisdom?

Answer 5

• Is from God
• Given to Man
• Requires cooperation to make on wise

Question 6

What is this paradigm:
- Is from God
- Given to Man
- Requires cooperation to make one wise

Answer 6

The paradigm for Wisdom

Question 7

What is the paradigm of wisdom equal to?

Answer 7

The Tree of Life

Question 8

What paradigm is the tree of life equal to?

Answer 8

The paradigm of wisdom

Question 9

What is the life of Solomon (5x-8x)?

Answer 9

• King over Israel and some gentiles
• Rules in Edenic times
• Acquires Wisdom from God to:
  
  • Govern
  • Discern - between good and evil
  • Worship aright
• Builds Temple
• Fall

Question 10

Whose life is this:
- King over Israel and some gentiles
- Rules in Edenic times
- Acquires Wisdom from God to:
- Govern
- Discern - between good and evil
- Worship aright
- Builds Temple
- Fall

Answer 10

The life of Solomon

Question 11

Who is the font and patron of Wisdom literature?

Answer 11

Solomon

Question 12

What is Solomon the font and patron of?

Answer 12

Wisdom literature

Question 13

What is Wisdom in Hebrew?

Answer 13

ḥôkmāh

Question 14

What does ḥôkmāh mean?

Answer 14

Wisdom (in Hebrew)

Question 15

What kind of wisdom is ḥôkmāh (x2)?

Answer 15

ḥôkmāh = intelligence, skill, instinct of animals
Skill, especially with the spoken or written word

Question 16

What means intelligence, skill, or instinct of animals in Hebrew?

Answer 16

ḥôkmāh

Question 17

What poetic structure is normally used in Wisdom literature?

Answer 17

Bicola

Question 18

What is bicola?

Answer 18

Two lines of poetry set in parallelism to each other, referred to as a single unit
A poetic structure normally used in Wisdom literature

Question 19

What are two lines of poetry set in parallelism to each other and referred to as a single unit called?

Answer 19

A bicola

Question 20

What are the main 3 kinds of parallelism?

Answer 20

Synonymous paralellism
Antithetical parallelism
Synthetic parallelism

Question 21

Synonymous, antithetical, and synthetics are all types of what?

Answer 21

Parallelism

Question 22

What is synonymous parallelism?

Answer 22

Where one repeats in the second part what has already been expressed in the first, while simply varying the words.

Question 23

What is the structure when one repeats in the second part what has already been expressed in the first, while simply varying the words?

Answer 23

Synonymous parallelism

Question 24

What is antithetical parallelism?

Answer 24

A form of parallelism where the meaning of two or more excerpts of text are observed, although directly linked by providing the same meaning from differing perspectives.

Question 25

What is a form of parallelism where the meaning of two or more excerpts of text are observed, although directly linked by providing the same meaning from differing perspectives?

Answer 25

Antithetical parallelism

Question 26

What is synthetic parallelism?

Answer 26

A form of parallelism where the completion or expansion of the idea of the first part is in the second part.

Question 27

What is a form of parallelism where the completion or expansion of the idea of the first part is in the second part called?

Answer 27

Synthetical parallelism

Question 28

How could you describe the characteristics of the proverbs?

Answer 28

Terse and dense

Question 29

What kind of literature is terse and dense?

Answer 29

Proverbs

Question 30

What are 4 reasons to believe that there was a class of "the wise" in Israel?

Answer 30

- ANE analogues - Necessary for the bureaucracy of the kingdom - Literary deposit - It was most clearly a class in the postexilic era

Question 31

What do these 4 points so the argument for: - ANE analogues - Necessary for the bureaucracy of the kingdom - Literary deposit - It was most clearly a class in the postexilic era

Answer 31

A class of "the wise"

Question 32

Who are the Scribes?

Answer 32

Scribes: - bureaucrats/retainers - “Scribal curriculum entails the study, memorization, and reproduction of long duration texts" - Some ascend as true masters - In postexilic, exemplified by the Sage, such as Ben Sira - Pedagogue

Question 33

Who are: - bureaucrats/retainers - Their "curriculum entails the study, memorization, and reproduction of long duration texts" - Some ascend as true masters - In postexilic, exemplified by the Sage, such as Ben Sira - Pedagogue

Answer 33

Scribes