of the world against the background of faith in Yahweh, then it appears, for its part, to be a fairly complex phenomenon which concealed its own intellectual difficulties within it and which cannot be claimed by modern secularism. We hold fast to the fact that in the case of the wise men’s search for knowledge, even when they expressed their results in a completely secular form, there was never any question of what we would call absolute knowledge functioning independently of their faith in Yahweh.