Koterski, Joseph W.
Summary: "This course surveys biblical wisdom literature by a study of important scriptural texts, including proverbs, job, Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes), Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Song of Songs (Canticle of Canticles), Daniel, Wisdom of Solomon, and selections from the Gospels as well as from the book of Psalms. The lectures take up the array of topics and problems that are recurrent in the Bible's sapiential...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Co. 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 223.06 KOT PART 1Call number: CD 223.06 KOT PART 2
Call number: CD 223.06 KOT PART 3
Bloom, Harold.
Contents: The power of wisdom -- The Hebrews: Job and Ecclesiastes -- The Greeks: Plato's contest with Homer -- Cervantes and Shakespeare -- The greatest ideas are the greatest events -- Montaigne and Francis Bacon -- Samuel Johnson and Goethe -- Emerson and Nietzsche -- Freud and Proust -- Christian wisdom -- The gospel of Thomas -- Saint Augustine and reading -- Coda: nemesis and wisdom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2004