Thesis (Th. M.)--Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1984. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-89).

Project (D. Min.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1991. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 227-235).

Thesis (M.A.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2007. / Chochmah appears in Hebrew script on t.p. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-87).

Project (D. Min.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1991. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 227-235).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Divinity School, June 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-295). Also available on the Internet.

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This thesis takes a fresh approach to the pursuit of wisdom in Proverbs 1–9 in its final form by treating it as a reading drama and analysing the dynamics of that drama in selected texts. This approach creates a new conceptual metaphor, which explains the abstract concept of pursing wisdom in the concrete image of a journey and reveals the sequence of events which construct that drama. It then proposes an analysis of motions and emotions as indicators delineating the transformations in the dyadic relationships. Those transformations are the dynamics of the drama. The analysis involves the study of: (1) imperatival expressions, denoting anticipated movements of the audience, (2) declarative clauses, indicating physical movement, (3) words of emotion, denoting psychological movements in the dyad and (4) pathos, referring to the emotion generated or anticipated in the audience. The study observes a chronological sequence and a plot and shows a gradation in intimacy and distance, indicated respectively by love and hate, between Woman Wisdom and the Young Man who is the recipient of the teachings and stands in the place of the actual reader. It looks too at physical movement and gradation in the Strange Woman's advances toward him. The application of Martin Buber's theory of “I and Thou” to the dyad of the Young Man and wisdom/Woman Wisdom illuminates the complementary and indispensable “I-It” and “I-Thou” attitudes which indicate respectively an intellectual learning of wisdom and a loving commitment to Woman Wisdom. The Young Man's partaking of Woman Wisdom's banquet is the high point of the “I-Thou” encounter and the climax of the progressive relationship between them. That successful conclusion to the pursuit is the fulfilment of a commitment to the “eternal Thou.” The fear of Yahweh has been the beginning and the end of the pursuit of wisdom.

Vishet som fenomen har en lång historia, dock har begreppet under de senaste åren uppmärksammats allt mer av empirisk forskning. Det råder oenigheter kring fenomenets innebörd. Många studier visar dock att vishet kännetecknas av kognitiva och reflekterande dimensioner - precis som i Ardelts teori där vishet förklaras genom kognitiva, affektiva och reflekterande egenskaper. Denna studie utgår från Ardelts teori. En enkätundersökning med 110 deltagare genomfördes med syftet att utforma ett för arbetslivet modifierat vishetsformulär. Dessutom ämnade studien jämföra kön, ålder och privat respektive kommunal sektor. Resultatet visade hög korrelation mellan det modifierade vishetsformuläret (ViA) och Ardelts tredimensionella visdomsskala (3D-WS). Dessutom visade resultatet att privat sektor erhöll signifikant högre poäng än kommunal sektor i 3D-WS, samt att kvinnor i snitt fick högre poäng än män. Åldersskillnader påvisades inte. Studiens brister i form av bland annat representativitet, antalet deltagare och utformningen av enkäten diskuterades.

with David Lyle Jeffrey, Provost, Baylor University; Author of People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture / McGuinn Hall 121

This thesis aims to do what the poem Job 28 is trying to do in the Book of Job, which is to focus on prescribed biblical wisdom practice in order to ‘bring wisdom back down to earth’ within a discussion concerning divine justice (Job 22-31). Chapter 1 introduces what a “wisdom reading” is and why it is necessary. Chapters 2-5 of this thesis give a close reading of Job 28:1-28 and includes an intentional dialogue between how the words, phrase, and theological concepts are used in the poem and in the main three bible wisdom texts (Job, Proverbs and Qoheleth). Chapter 6 discusses the implications of reading Job 28 in light of its biblical wisdom tradition. Job 28 speaks of a hidden wisdom, but it is not obvious how this prescribed wisdom (“fear of God and avoiding evil”) is connected to divine justice until the poem is read within the of context of the three main biblical wisdom books (Job, Proverbs, Qoheleth). A close reading of Job 28:1-1 and 12-28 within the context of the biblical wisdom tradition, challenges the reader to redefine what the book of Job is saying about wisdom in ethical terms and, therefore, also provokes a redefinition of the divine gaze upon the earth in terms of divine justice. In this thesis, we shall see how wisdom and divine justice are both rooted in earthly matters. It is only when viewed as “down-to-earth” matters that we see that they are related to each other in sapiential literature, especially in Job 28. If ‘wisdom’ is understood as proper conduct on earth (avoiding evil action, Job 28:28b) prompted by an understanding that God gazes on this earth he created (fear of the Lord, Job 28:28a), then divine justice is to be understood as divine regulation of that proper conduct and attitude.