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I saw them as sapiential metaphors, far more meaningful than their didactic pretext.

Origen suggested that "sword" in the Gospels be interpreted as a sapiential image.

She adds that "we cannot assume that Thomas was originally or entirely a sapiential gospel.

Sapiential Texts, Part 1.

The top point was labelled Occult/thaumaturgical; the bottom left Material; the bottom right Social/sapiential.

Some scholars, however, have argued that the content of the poem also links it with Sapiential Books, or Wisdom Literature.

This sapiential dimension is all the more necessary today, because the immense expansion of humanity's technical capability demands a renewed and sharpened sense of ultimate values.

Crossan is an important voice in contemporary historical Jesus research, promoting the idea of a non-apocalyptic Jesus who preaches a sapiential eschatology.

This sapiential literature consists in translations and adaptations of some Greek texts, namely of the Physiolog (cca.

He preferred to preach to the poor; his sermons, taken largely from the Prophets and Sapiential Books, breathe the tenderest human sympathy.

Arnal believes that the Gnostic Layer was added to the Sapiential layer, which is where his compositional stratification theory comes from.

The Seafarer has "significant sapiential material concerning the definition of wise men, the ages of the world, and the necessity for patience in adversity" (Hill 806).

This also meant that we cannot assume that Q was sapiential because Thomas was sapiential.

Lessons of Morality and Piety; extracted from the Sapiential Books of Holy Scripture (London 1822).

To be consonant with the word of God, philosophy needs first of all to recover its sapiential dimension as a search for the ultimate and overarching meaning of life.

This work brought to a close the publication of this valuable translation and commentary, which, however, comprises only the Psalms, the Sapiential Books and the Pentateuch.

Biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan of the Jesus Seminar coined and uses the term sapiential eschatology to refer to a similar concept:

Sapiential books are in the broad tradition of wisdom literature that was found widely in the Ancient Near East, and includes writings from many religions other than Judaism.

He accorded more attention to the practical and educational problems, and he tried to connect Zera Yacob's philosophy with the kind of wisdom expressed in the earlier sapiential literature.

Since the early 1960s Lindbom was a disciple of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon, who is the foremost representative of sapiential esoterism in the modern world.

In particular, his work centers on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Enoch literature, other Jewish sapiential and apocalyptic writings, and the literature of the New Testament.

This document continues to receive so much attention because it is viewed, on the one hand, as a wisdom document and yet, on the other, has multiple apocalyptic motifs that arise alongside sapiential ones.

Sapiential Books or Books of Wisdom is a term used in biblical studies to refer to a subset of the books of the Jewish Bible in the Septuagint version.

But he only made a revision and not a fresh translation of the Gospels into Latin, nor did he translate from Syriac into Latin the Sapiential Books or the Apocalypse.

A date for the final Q document is often placed in the 40s or 50s of the first century, with some arguing its so-called sapiential layer (1Q, containing six wisdom speeches) being written as early as the 30s.