TOT 455-462,472-477

Proverbs

• What tells us that works like Proverbs might have been taught in a family setting?
• How did copying Proverbs prepare young men for the civil service, according to our book?
• Who is the pseudonymous author of works like Proverbs, and why?
• How do we know the pseudonymous author of Proverbs is not the real one?
• Who is the strange woman?
• How is proverbs essentially patriarchal?
• What are some of the near Eastern gods Wisdom is compared to by our textbook?

Ecclesiastes

• When was this text probably written and why?
• The book offers three explanations for the work's contradictions. What are two of them?
• How is the Hebrew term "hebel" used here and elsewhere in the bible?
• How does this work incorporate a caution about its subversive nature?
• What insights about Sheol can we gather from Iron Age grave goods?
• What insight can we gain from "prohibitions and condemnations of necromancy"?
• What post-hellenistic writing in the bible reflect survival of the soul without the body? What Greek school influenced it?
• In what "context" did ideas about bodily resurrection emerge?