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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 wisdomplay

    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)

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