Wisdom's Wonder: Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible's Wisdom Literature
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Wisdom's Wonder: Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible's Wisdom Literature
Author: William P. Brown Retail Price: $26.50 Our Price: $23.85
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Explores the biblical wisdom books anew through the interpretive lens of wonder
This book offers a fresh reading of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes with a distinctive emphasis on 'wonder' as the framework for understanding biblical wisdom. William Brown argues that wonder effectively integrates biblical wisdom's emphasis on character formation and its outlook on creation, breaking an impasse that has plagued recent wisdom studies.
An extensive revision and expansion of Brown's Character in Crisis, Wisdom's Wonder demonstrates that the Bible's wisdom books are much more than simply advice literature: with wonder as the foundation for understanding, Brown maintains, wisdom is a dynamic process with transformation of the self as the goal.