The Importance of the Biblical Wisdom Tradition to Our Scripture and Our Faith

Diane Jacobson

Article Type: Article

Publication Date: 8/12/2021

Paired Article (Face to Face): The Importance of the Biblical Wisdom Tradition to Our Scripture and Our Faith

Issue: Wisdom (Vol. 41, No 4, Summer, 2021)

Sometimes the biblical wisdom tradition is presented as some type of outlier within the Bible, as an alternative to the general themes and tradition of the book. But an examination of the wisdom texts themselves, and of the New Testament accounts of Jesus’s teachings, suggests that the wisdom tradition is actually very close to the core of what the Bible is all about.

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