旧约词汇 - W

Waters of chaos

The seas conceived as monsters who challenged Yahweh's power and authority. Also see Chaos. See Chapter 1.

Wilderness wanderings

(also called the wilderness sojourn) The forty year period after the exodus from Egypt when the Israelites lived in the Sinai peninusla before they entered the Promised Land.

Wisdom

A comprehensive term used in reference to the distinctive wisdom literature and wisdom outlook of Israelite, Mesopotamian, and Egyptian cultures; suggests a perspective on understanding the world dominated by the use of reason, a search for order, and teaching moral behavior. See Chapter 14.

Wisdom literature

In the Hebrew Bible, those books of a predominantly didactic (Proverbs) or philosophical (Job, Ecclesiastes) cast; in the Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus and the Wisdom of Solomon belong to the didactic tradition of wisdom literature. See Part 3 Introduction, Part 3 Wisdom Literature.

Writings

The third main division of the Hebrew Bible, the ketuvim; it is the k of Tanak. See Part 3.

Written torah

(also called written law) See Oral torah. See Conclusion.