Old Testament Survey I
From the Garden to the Temple
Wisdom for Suffering
May 19, 2019 • Ben Adams, Les Sillars • Job
Wisdom Literature; Dating Job; Cycle of Dialogues; Where is Wisdom?; Elihu Speaks; I Am Speaks; Pensées; Chaos and Order; Prologue (reasons for suffering); Epilogue (natural evil); Application Questions (bad responses to suffering, etc.)
Wisdom for Worship
May 12, 2019 • Les Sillars • Psalms
Favorite Psalms (101, 8, 1); the moral component of wisdom; Forms (petition, praise, royal psalms [72], enthronement [93-99], of Zion [48], wisdom [1]); Major themes (God’s kingship, God the Creator, God the Judge; Outline of the five books of Psalms; Key passages, themes, and interpretive issues [1, 2, 3, 22, 110]); Application: another favorite Psalm