1. Wisdom Literature Old Testament: Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) Apocrypha: Wisdom of Solomon, Ben Sira(ch)

2. ‘Folk wisdom’ The lazy person does not plough in season; harvest comes and there’s nothing to be found (Proverbs 20.4)

3. hokmah (wisdom); hakam (wise) ‘goldsmiths’ (Jeremiah 10.9) ‘stonemasons’ (1 Chronicles 22.15) ‘shipbuilders’ (Ezekiel 27.8-9) ‘wise women’ (2 Samuel 14.2ff)

4. mashal ‘proverb’

5. The Book of Proverbs 1.1 – The Proverbs of Solomon 10.1 – The Proverbs of Solomon 25.1 – The Proverbs of Solomon 22.17 – The Words of the Wise 24.23 – The Words of the Wise 30.1 – The Words of Agur 31.1 – The Words of Lemuel

6. Proverbs 1 1.2-6: Introductory words 1.7: A maxim 1.8-19: An address 1.20-33: A second address

7. Proverbs 3.19-20 Yhwh by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens; by his knowledge the deeps broke open, and the clouds drop down the dew.

8. Proverbs 8.1 Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand…

9. Proverbs 8.22 Yhwh created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago.

10. Proverbs 8.27-30 When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master worker; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always…

11. Types of sayings Commands14.7 Condemnations 24.20 Comparisons 11.18 Similes 26.24