Wisdom’s Wonder: Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible’s Wisdom Literature (Biblia.com)

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Wisdom’s Wonder offers a fresh reading of the Hebrew Bible’s wisdom literature with a unique emphasis on “wonder” as the framework for understanding biblical wisdom. William Brown argues that wonder effectively integrates biblical wisdom’s emphasis on character formation and its outlook on creation, effectively breaking an impasse that has plagued recent wisdom studies. Drawing from various...

for the cultivation of love and compassion.132 Wonder thus plays an indispensable role in the formation of the moral self in part because wonder has all to do with perception, as much as perception has all to do with the formation of character. Wonder prompts fresh ways of seeing. In wonder, eyes are opened and the world looks different. In wonder, the self pays attention in a new way. As Job remarked of God’s revelation, “I declared what I did not perceive, things too wonderful for me” (42:3). To

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