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    Journey- lesson 18: Later Wisdom
    Journey- lesson 18: Later Wisdom
    Journey- lesson 18: Later Wisdom
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    Journey- lesson 18: Later Wisdom

    By Marcel Gervais

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    This is lesson 18 of the Journey Bible Study Program series. In chapter 1 we learn of the main events between 400 and 200 BC which affected the People. In chapter 2 we have a description of the Book of Qoheleth (Ecclesisastes). In chapter 3 we learn of the three basic interpretations of the Song of Songs.IN chapter 4 we learn the ways in which the message of Sirach marked an advance on the thinking of earlier wisdom.

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    PublisherMarcel Gervais
    Release dateJan 16, 2014
    ISBN9781927766217
    Journey- lesson 18: Later Wisdom
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    Marcel Gervais

    About the Author Archbishop Gervais was born in Elie Manitoba on September 21 1931. He is the ninth of fourteen children. His family came from Manitoba to the Sparta area near St. Thomas Ontario when he was just a teenager. He went to Sparta Continuation School and took his final year at Saint Joseph`s High School in St. Thomas. After high school he went to study for the priesthood at St. Peter’s Seminary in London , Ontario. He was ordained in 1958. He was sent to study in Rome. This was followed by studies at the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem. He returned to London to teach scripture to the seminarians at St. Peter’s Seminary. In 1974 he was asked by Bishop Emmett Carter to take over as director of the Divine Word International Centre of Religious Education. This Centre had been founded by Bishop Carter to provide a resource for adult education in the spirit of Vatican II. This Centre involved sessions of one or two weeks with many of the best scholars of the time. Students came not only from Canada and the United States but from all over the globe, Australia, Africa, Asia and Europe. By the time Father Gervais became the director Divine Word Centre was already a course dominated by the study of scripture to which he added social justice. This aspect of the course of studies was presented by people from every part of the “third world”; among which were Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez and Cardinal Dery of Ghana. In 1976 the Conference of Ontario Bishops along with the Canadian conference of Religious Women approached Father Gervais to provide a written course of studies in Sacred Scripture for the Church at large, but especially for priests and religious women. This is when Fr. Gervais began to write Journey, a set of forty lessons on the Bible. He was armed with a treasure of information from all the teachers and witnesses to the faith that had lectured at Devine Word. He was assisted by a large number of enthusiastic collaborators: all the people who had made presentations at Divine Word and provided materials and a team of great assistants, also at Divine Word Centre. The work was finished just as Father Gervais was ordained an auxiliary bishop of London (1980). He subsequently was made Bishop of Sault Saint Marie Diocese, and after four years, Archbishop of Ottawa (1989). He retired in 2007, and at the time of this writing, he is enjoying retirement.

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      Journey- lesson 18 - Marcel Gervais

      Journey- Lesson 18 Later Wisdom

      by Marcel Gervais, Emeritus Archbishop of the diocese of Ottawa, Canada

      Nihil Obstat: Michael T. Ryan, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

      Imprimatur: + John M. Sherlock, Bishop of London

      London, March 31, 1980

      This content of this book was first published in 1977 as part of the JOURNEY Series By Guided Study Programs in the Catholic Faith and is now being republished in Smashwords by Emmaus Publications, 99 Fifth Avenue, Suite 103, Ottawa,ON, K1S 5P5, Canada on Smashwords

      Cover: ...listen to instruction and learn to be wise Prov. 8:32a,33

      COPYRIGHT © Guided Study Programs ln the Catholic Faith, a division of The Divine Word International Centre of Religious Education 1977. Reproduction ln whole or ln part is Prohibited.

      ~~~~~~~~

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1 Events from 400 to 200 BC

      Chapter 2 Serenity or despair (Qoheleth)

      Chapter 3 The Song of Songs (Canticle of Canticles or Song of Solomon

      Chapter 4 Wisdom meets the Law (Sirach)

      Appendix on Old Testament Canon

      Answer key to practice questions

      Self-test

      Answer key to self-test

      Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Eighteen

      About The Author

      Psalm 128

      A psalm from the wisdom tradition which expresses the faith of a man who believes that the Lord surely rewards those who are obedient to him. The rewards are expressed in terms of life on this earth: food, well-being which comes from one's work, a good wife, many sons and a long life. These blessings are seen as coming from the Lord. The psalm suggests the themes to be considered in this lesson: like Qoheleth the psalm appreciates the joys of this life on earth; like the Song of Songs the psalm praises marriage; like Sirach the psalm sees the foundation of all wisdom in the fear of the Lord.

      Lesson Objective To discuss the main events between 400 and 200 BC which affected the People; to describe the teachings of Qoheleth and identify three interpretations of the Song of

      Songs; to describe the advances made by Sirach over earlier wisdom writers.

      Introduction

      People of every social and economic class possess wise sayings and proverbs of their own. This must have been the case among the People of God as well. Examples of wise sayings of ordinary people are referred to in books other than the books of wisdom. For example, "Wickedness comes from the wicked (1 Sam 24:14); Let him boast who takes his armour off, not he who puts it on (1 Kings 20:1 1); Is the axe stronger than the axeman?" (isa 10:15). Reflection and wit in any class of people will produce wise sayings.

      We can ask how wise sayings were collected, how they were handed on and how the ideas and experiences of the wisdom tradition were developed into such books as Job, Qoheleth, Sirach and Wisdom. While no clear and definite answers can be given, we can nevertheless offer a fairly accurate sketch of the development of the materials of the wis¬dom books.

      The family, the clan and tribe would seem to be the most natural setting for the earliest collections of wisdom sayings. Parents, interested in preparing their children for the proper handling of life, would be interested in passing on to them the wisdom of their family, clan or tribe. This is an assumption which appears quite reasonable, though of course it cannot be proven.

      We are on more certain ground when we come to the period of the kingship in the People of God. Here we see the rise of official counsellors to the kings, persons whose very position in government demanded wisdom. David had his counsellors (eg. 2 Sam 15:12). It was the role of such persons to advise the king on the proper way of handling the affairs of state. The kings had many officials who played various roles in government, both within the country and in its relations with other countries (1 Kings 4:1-21). All of these diplomats and ministers of the crown had to have training of some sort. It is most likely that schools developed in the courts of the kings where young men could receive training in the wisdom required

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