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A study of the five books of poetry or wisdom—Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs. These books cover issues like suffering, parenting, and the fear of the Lord, teaching us how to live. The course is designed to help the student in his or her own walk with God and in ministering to others who need instruction.

of uncertainty exists. The manuscripts on which our modern Hebrew texts and English translations are based were not written in verse, so a person cannot tell the difference between poetry and prose in these texts just by looking at them. At times, such as in Isaiah 4:2, scholars disagree about whether the text is poetry or prose. Thus, those who edit our contemporary English translations make decisions as to which portions of the text are poetry and which are prose. The scholars who produce the translations
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