there is an encompassing framework that can account for both. Leo Perdue has suggested what he calls a “dialectic of anthropology and cosmology.”17 But such a framework is of limited use, since it simply defines the issue as abstractly as possible rather than offering a concrete way forward. Determining the precise relationship between these two sides or dialectical poles bedevils any interpreter who wants to grasp the full range and depth of the wisdom corpus. To summarize thus far: One proposed