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1
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Wisdom literature

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Three books that share “wisdom” features - Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes

2
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Retribution

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Goodness results in prosperity and wickedness leads to suffering

3
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Theodicy

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Attempt to justify Gods ways in the world

4
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Behemoth

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The hippopotamus

5
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Leviathan

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Probably the crocodile

6
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Uz

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Where Job lived

7
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Which books compose the wisdom literature of the Bible?

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Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastical

8
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Two general group/types of wisdom literature in the ancient near east

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Egyptian instructional wisdom

Mesopotamian discoursive wisdom

9
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Dating of the book of Job

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Early eighth century BC to third century BC