Wisdom Literature and Psalms - open course
The course will offer an overview of the Old Testament’s collection of Wisdom Literature in the books of Job, Proverbsand Ecclesiastes, and its central collection of poetry in the book of Psalms. Literary forms and rhetorical devices characteristic of Hebrew poetry and Wisdom Literature will be introduced as well as some of its distinctive theological themes and characteristics through a survey of the contents and messages of each of the four books.