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TERM 1
Fear of YHWH
DEFINITION 1 (also Fear of God/Elohim and Fear of the Lord) A deep respect and reverence of God; an important theme in the Elohist fragments and in the wisdom literature. TERM 2
Job
DEFINITION 2 A righteous man whom God tested by disaster and personal suffering; in the end God restored his wealth and family; the book of Job, considered a work of wisdom literature, contains the story. TERM 3
Leviathan
DEFINITION 3 (also Litan or Lotan) The mythological sea monster mentioned in prophetic, wisdom, and apocalyptic literature, especially the book of Job; it is also attested in Ugaritic literature. TERM 4
Personification
DEFINITION 4 The literary device of portraying an idea or nonhuman object as a human being. See also Anthropomorphism. TERM 5
Proverb
DEFINITION 5 A short, pithy saying in frequent and widespread use that expresses a basic truth or practical precept; the book of Proverbs is one of the Writings and is classified as wisdom literature.
TERM 6
Retribution Theology
DEFINITION 6 The outlook found in Deuteronomic and wisdom literatature that believes a supreme being punishes wrong doers for their bad deeds. TERM 7
Satan
DEFINITION 7 (Hebrew for adversary or accuser) In the Old Testament a member of the divine council who challenged God in the books of Job and Zechariah. TERM 8
Theodicy
DEFINITION 8 (Greek for "justice of God") A term that denotes the issue of God's justice in relation to the problem of human suffering, used often in discussions of the book of Job relating to the attempt to justify God in the face of evil. TERM 9
Wisdom
DEFINITION 9 A comprehensive term used in reference to the distinctive wisdom literature and wisdom outlook of Israelite, Mesopotamian, and Egyptian cultures; suggests a perspective on understanding the world dominated by the use of reason, a search for order, and teaching moral behavior. TERM 10
Wisdom Literature
DEFINITION 10 In the Hebrew Bible, those books of a predominantly didactic (Proverbs) or philosophical (Job, Ecclesiastes) cast; in the Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus and the Wisdom of Solomon belong to the didactic tradition of wisdom literature.
