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...

therefore serve as a model for others. More specifically, someone who has character is one who exercises sound judgment, knows what is right, and has the courage to act on it,37 which sounds a lot like having wisdom. When compared to the literary qualities that highlight a character’s uniqueness, ethical character represents a generalizing aspect: particular values and virtues are highlighted that bear a normative status for others. Ethicists identify several constitutive elements to the moral life,

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