OT037-812 - Understanding and Applying Old Testament Wisdom Literature

  • 2,976 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 8
    AQF level
  • Category advanced unit
    C
  • old testamentUnit Discipline

Prerequisites

24cps OT

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code OT743-4.

Set Text

This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

1. Demonstrate Advanced knowledge and understanding of, and the research underlying, the interpretation and application of the Wisdom Literature

B. Be able to

1. Examine recent scholarship in its bearing on the interpretation and application of the Wisdom Literature

2. Demonstrate skill in utilising diverse scholarship in the interpretation and application of the Wisdom Literature

3. Present Research-Aware evidence-based perspectives on the interpretation and application of the Wisdom Literature

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying Advanced perspectives and skills from ‘Interpreting and Wisdom Literature’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner

Content

Section A: Understanding the theology of wisdom literature:

Module 1: The unique features of wisdom literature

Module 2: The relationship of wisdom literature to the rest of the OT

Module 3: The relationship of the wisdom literature of Israel to the ANE

Module 4: The presentation of God in each book

Module 5: The way human life is viewed in each book

Module 6: The way the deed-consequence relationship is understood in each book

Section B: Application: Preaching wisdom literature

Module 7: The understanding and application of Proverbs

Module 8: The hermeneutical issues in understanding wisdom literature

Module 9: How to preach wisdom literature, especially Job and Ecclesiastes

Module 10: How Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes relate to Christ

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.


Craig G. Bartholomew and Ryan P. O’Dowd, Old Testament Wisdom Literature (IVP, 2011).

Sidney Greidanus, Preaching Christ from Ecclesiastes (Eerdmans, 2010).

Richard Belcher, A Study Commentary on Ecclesiastes (Darlington: EP Books, 2014).

John H. Walton and Tremper Longman, How to Read Job (IVP, 2015).

Roy B. Zuck, ed., Learning from the Sages: Selected Studies on the Book of Proverbs (Baker, 1995).

Richard P. Belcher, Jr., A Commentary on Job: The Mystery of Suffering and God's Sovereignty (Christian Focus, Forthcoming).

Craig Bartholomew, Ecclesiastes (Baker, 2009).

Miles Van Pelt, ed., A Biblical-Theological Introduction to the Old Testament, (Wheaton: Crossway, 2016).

Tremper Longman III, The Book of Ecclesiastes (Eerdmans, 1998).

Tremper Longman III, Proverbs (Baker, 2006).

Tremper Longman III, Job (Baker, 2012).

Bruce Waltke, The Book of Proverbs (Eerdmans, 2004, 2005).