Papers by Lance Higginbotham
One of the long-standing problems in the discipline of Old Testament (OT) Theology has been the q... more One of the long-standing problems in the discipline of Old Testament (OT) Theology has been the question of the theological relationship between OT wisdom literature and the rest of the OT books. 1 Sixty-seven years ago, Rylaarsdam observed that the OT wisdom corpus lacks any explicit concern for concepts that are basic to the theology of the rest of the OT, including the concepts of covenant, priesthood and Messiah. 2 Subsequently, in a seminal essay on the theology of the OT wisdom literature, Zimmerli wrote "Wisdom has no relation to the history between God and Israel," specifically noting the absence of the concepts of covenant and election in the canonical wisdom corpus. 3 While there is certainly value in examining the theology of the wisdom corpus on its own terms, properly assessing the theological problem at hand requires caution in how one evaluates the differences 1 For a history of the discussion of the place of wisdom literature in OT theology, see: Charles H H.
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Papers by Lance Higginbotham