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Wisdom
(Heb.,
okhmah
,
binah
, ‘discrimination’). An ethical and religious quality of life as advocated by the Hebrew scriptures. Wisdom is sometimes used in the sense of
‘intelligence’
(e.g. Ecclesiastes 2. 3), but it came to symbolize a particular cultural tradition within Judaism. The wisdom books of the
Bible
are
Proverbs
,
Job
, and
Ecclesiastes
. The
Apocrypha
includes
Ecclesiasticus
(
Ben Sira
) and the
Wisdom of Solomon
.
okhmah,
binah
, ‘discrimination’). An ethical and religious quality of life as advocated by the Hebrew scriptures. Wisdom is sometimes used in the sense of
‘intelligence’
(e.g. Ecclesiastes 2. 3), but it came to symbolize a particular cultural tradition within Judaism. The wisdom books of the
Bible
are
Proverbs
,
Job
, and
Ecclesiastes
. The
Apocrypha
includes
Ecclesiasticus
(
Ben Sira
) and the
Wisdom of Solomon
.
Wisdom
(in Mah
y
na Buddhism):
(in Mah
yna Buddhism):Wisdom of Solomon
.
.
One of the books of the
Apocrypha
. The author's familiarity with Gk. philosophy places him as a Jew of Alexandria in the period 2nd cent. BCE–1st cent. CE. The terms used of Wisdom in ch. 7 passed into Christian theology as applied to Christ.
Apocrypha
. The author's familiarity with Gk. philosophy places him as a Jew of Alexandria in the period 2nd cent. BCE–1st cent. CE. The terms used of Wisdom in ch. 7 passed into Christian theology as applied to Christ.
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