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In his last major work, Gerhard von Rad asserts that the Hebrew conception of wisdom involved an “encounter with the world as the creation of God.” Arguing that the wisdom teachers radically reinterpreted earlier creedal formulations, von Rad demonstrates that Hebrew wisdom was fundamentally different from both the teachings of the Pentateuch and the prophetic movement. Basing his study on a wide...

fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, then this says something about the starting point of wisdom. The form in Prov. 15:33 is similar: the fear of God trains a man for wisdom. In spite of—or rather because of—these variants, the basic thought is reasonably clear. It is obvious that the question about the locus of wisdom should be answered rather than that about the locus of the fear of God. It is also obvious that such a definition of locus can be made because of the fact that wisdom is set in
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