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The Fear of the Lord Is Wisdom: A Theological Introduction to Wisdom in Israel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Wisdom plays an important role in the Old Testament, particularly in Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes. This major work from renowned scholar Tremper Longman examines wisdom in the Old Testament and explores its theological influence on the intertestamental books, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and especially the New Testament. Longman notes that wisdom is a practical category (the skill of living), an...

Having considered the books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, we now turn to Job to further our understanding of the nature of wisdom. When most people think about Job, their first thought is that Job is a book about suffering. Job famously suffers, but the book’s primary issue is not the nature of suffering, nor is it interested in answering the question of why we suffer. No, Job’s suffering presents the occasion for raising the
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