743 Wisdom Literature
This course will study the Wisdom Literature of the Bible (Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom, Sirach) in order to discern “what meaning the sacred writers really intended, and what God wanted to manifest by means of their words” (Dei Verbum 12). Attention will be given to literary forms, historical and cultural context, the place of Wisdom literature in the canon, and the interpretation of it in the tradition of the Church.