Sentences with phrase «by the wisdom literature»

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It is principally represented in the literature of the period by the so - called «Wisdom» books.

The motives of confident optimism and of resignation appear side by side in the wisdom literature; no reconciliation is found.

Instead of beginning with an image derived from prophetic discourse, that of another voice behind the prophet's voice, and extending it by analogy to narration, prescriptive saying, wisdom literature, hymnic compositions, and so on, we are delivered from psychologizing interpretations of revelation to a sensitivity to the sense of the text, to the world - reference it opens up before it.

The vocabulary and imagery of the Prologue are clearly seen to be influenced by Old Testament wisdom literature and not Hellenistic philosophy.

Communication by writing was never as developed in the Jewish milieu as it was in the more agrarian less nomadic Indo - Himalayan and Chinese civilisations, until at least about the time we find the Wisdom literature, the time that is of the full penetration into the near East of the Romano - Hellenic culture of the West.

After closely studying these works, J. L. Crenshaw is right in questioning some of the conclusions drawn by the scholars amplifying the influence of the wisdom literature on the other books of the Bible and inter-testamental literature.

Hellenistic Jewish wisdom literature attributes immortality first to God and then only by participation to the wise man who observes God's law.

It is said by some that the religion of the greatest sages of the East transcends, in its contemplative vision of God, the tradition of the Hebrews, at least until the writing of the «Wisdom» literature some two hundred years or less before the birth of Christ.

If one looks through the history of literature and letters, one indeed sees the outliers, the innovators and those ahead of their times all obscured, all ignored by the conventional wisdom of their eras, and yet it is always the innovators who push forward the language, and given the number of masters who have died penniless, money is no measure of the artistry or «authorhood» of a writer.

Wisdom is leading English language publisher specializing in Buddhist literature including translation of reference texts, and commentaries, meditation manuals and teachings by past and contemporary teachers from all Buddhist traditions.

Such echoes, while perhaps unanticipated in the sphere of common wisdom, make it tempting to return to the literature around institutional critique and appropriation to see what might be newly gleaned today — particularly when it comes to critics who, despite concerns about art's infiltration by mass culture, have lauded artists who position themselves in an expanded field with respect to art for the sake of efficacy.