E — Wisdom Literature

Chapter 4

Premium narration

Two fragments have preserved the first four lines of a column from a Wisdom composition. The script is Herodian, dating to the turn of the era. The word 'God' is written with palaeo-Hebrew letters in lines and 4. For the editio princeps, see E. Qimron, DJD, XX, i69-71.. I will teach you knowledge and wisdom, And understand the ways of man and the works of the sons of man. According to God's loving-kindness towards man, He has enlarged his inheritance in the knowledge of His truth, and according to His rejection of every evil man, no-one who walks after his ears and his eyes shall live. And now His loving-kindness.. the ancient, they will consider the years of all the generations as God has revealed..