Deborah Hicks, EIE’s vice president, noted that “Wisdom Literature from the Bible allows students to meet language and literacy objectives by studying the writings and life experiences of ...

The wisdom books of the Hebrew Bible. Among the endless waves of wisdom literature to have cascaded over the cultures and societies of the world, five books in the Hebrew Bible occupy a ...

Also the Russian Orthodox church in 1956 published a Russian Bible in Moscow which contained these Books. [JBC, p. 524] More details from a scholarly Protestant viewpoint can be found in The New ...

Indeed, the scholarly designation “wisdom books” assigns these texts to a genre that is also found in Egyptian and Mesopotamian literature. “The perspective of Wisdom literature,” Alter ...

Do not be put off by its didactic title. How to Read the Bible is an engaging, inspirational and accessible book by one of America's pre-eminent scholars of religion, Harvey Cox, emeritus ...

This Lent, I have decided to reread the Wisdom literature from the Bible. These books focus on life here and now on planet Earth. I have come more and more to appreciate this focus as I live ...

Faith Works: The Bible is a library of spiritual reflection this Lenten season Back to the first books in the Bible: They tell us where we come from, who made us and claims us. Yes, creation ...

When Dr. Chike Akua steps into a room — or cracks open a page — he brings with him thousands of years of ancestral wisdom. In ...