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WISDOM LITERATURE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom
Synonyms:
sapiential book; wisdom book; wisdom literature
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("wisdom literature" is a kind of...):
religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)
Meronyms (parts of "wisdom literature"):
Book of Proverbs; Proverbs (an Old Testament book consisting of proverbs from various Israeli sages (including Solomon))
Book of Ecclesiastes; Ecclesiastes (an Old Testament book consisting of reflections on the vanity of human life; is traditionally attributed to Solomon but probably was written about 250 BC)
Canticle of Canticles; Canticles; Song of Solomon; Song of Songs (an Old Testament book consisting of a collection of love poems traditionally attributed to Solomon but actually written much later)
Ben Sira; Ecclesiasticus; Sirach; Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach (an Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect))
Wisdom; Wisdom of Solomon (an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC)
