THE FEAR OF THE LORD:
THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM THEOLOGY
Creation
Fear?
Distinctives
Fear in the Wisdom corpus
Proverbs (19x)
- Fear of YHWH
- Knowledge
- Beginning*
Ecclesiastes (7x)
- Transcendence
- Transience
No Tetragrammaton?
Job (11x)
- The Prologue: upright, turns from evil
- Eliphaz: iniquity and (?) transcendence
- Job (himself): meh
- Elihu: transcendence
No Tetragrammaton?
Commonalities
Fear in the Wisdom corpus
Ethics
Transience & Transcendence
Job 28
the end of wisdom