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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...

The question is therefore justified whether the attractive code-name ‘wisdom’ is nowadays not more of a hindrance than a help, in so far as it disguises what stands behind it rather than depicts it properly. As matters stand today, we can only first remove the individual phenomena, as far as is possible, from under this unsatisfactory blanket term and examine them anew from what are, nowadays, rather different points of view. That wisdom has to do with human understanding, that it is a particular
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