13 min

Wisdom for Righteous Living Walla Walla University Good Word Broadcasts

    • Christianity

Leading Question: What is wisdom?

Scripture Focus: Deuteronomy 28, Psalm 128, Psalm 90, Psalm 137 and 138

The Big Idea: It is usually books like Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes that are described as “wisdom literature.” But the Psalms also include collected wisdom and even the way the songs and poems are organized invites us as readers into a journey of discernment.

For Discussion:

William Brown describes the book of Psalms as a hymnbook, a prayer book, and a textbook, and argues that the wisdom psalms reveal “points of dialogical contact between Psalms and the wisdom corpus, snapshots of a larger dialogue over what ...

Leading Question: What is wisdom?

Scripture Focus: Deuteronomy 28, Psalm 128, Psalm 90, Psalm 137 and 138

The Big Idea: It is usually books like Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes that are described as “wisdom literature.” But the Psalms also include collected wisdom and even the way the songs and poems are organized invites us as readers into a journey of discernment.

For Discussion:

William Brown describes the book of Psalms as a hymnbook, a prayer book, and a textbook, and argues that the wisdom psalms reveal “points of dialogical contact between Psalms and the wisdom corpus, snapshots of a larger dialogue over what ...

13 min