NOUN
- any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom
How To Use wisdom literature In A Sentence
- An affection for the blunt speech of brute common sense often gives her poems the plain poise of wisdom literature, lanced with slides and swerves that leap from her alert musicality.
- As I said in a post about Job which appeared here a couple of years ago, I think that the genre of this book, as Wisdom literature, is crucial to interpreting the "theophany" presented at the end. Indescribable
- These are wisdom sayings,and this is wisdom literature, so in the Jewish scripture you have whole books that are basically wisdom literature,and scholars will use that term.
- In the later wisdom literatures, the conception of wisdom was turned from phenomenalism to ontology, from epistemology to ethics.
