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CFE 101: LESSON 3:: Ketuvim

The Ketuvim section of the Tanakh contains books that provide wisdom for daily living and address questions about how to live and what life is about. It includes Job, Ecclesiastes, Psalms, and Wisdom. Job teaches that experiencing God, even without answers to suffering, can convince one of God's presence. Ecclesiastes warns against hope in anything but God and advises seizing each day. Psalms express faith in God through praise and lament. Overall, the Ketuvim present God journeying with his people and the wisdom of committing to God and obeying his commandments.

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CFE 101: LESSON 3:: Ketuvim

The Ketuvim section of the Tanakh contains books that provide wisdom for daily living and address questions about how to live and what life is about. It includes Job, Ecclesiastes, Psalms, and Wisdom. Job teaches that experiencing God, even without answers to suffering, can convince one of God's presence. Ecclesiastes warns against hope in anything but God and advises seizing each day. Psalms express faith in God through praise and lament. Overall, the Ketuvim present God journeying with his people and the wisdom of committing to God and obeying his commandments.

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CFE 101: LESSON 3:

GOD THE FATHER JOURNEYS WITH HIS


PEOPLE IN THE KETUVIM
KETUVIM (JOB, ECCLESIASTES,PSALMS, WISDOM)

• The name of the third section of the TaNaKh which simply means
“Writings”.
• These books answer the basic questions, “How shall I live?” and “What is
life about?”
• These were most likely produced during the postexilic period
• They teach that wisdom is insight based on experience
JOB
• Was probably written during the Babylonian exile in the 6th
century
• Job’s life was enviable: he was a leader of the nomads and he
lacks nothing.
• Since he preserved his trust, it was rewarded by the just God.
• “But now my eye beholds you” (Job 42:5)
- Job experienced the sacred (God).This experience gave
him no new answers or explanation for the problem of suffering.
But this convinced him that God was real in spite of the human
inability to see fairness in the world.
ECCLESIASTES
• Author: Qoheleth
• It was written to warn us against placing our hope in anyone or anything other than God.
• Central metaphors:
“vanity of vanities: all is vanity”
“chasing after the wind” “under the sun”
• It looks at all the aspects of the human condition, one after the other, beginning from the
surest: death. Death destroys all illusions of man who tries to forget the lack of meaning in
his life.The awareness of it teaches us about what is important in life.
• True wisdom means carpe diem:”seize the day”. Don’t miss it; don’t let it slip by unnoticed;
don’t live it in the fog; don’t waste it chasing the wind.
• This book directs us to “fear God”, “keep his commandments,” and expect his judgement
(Eccl 12:13-14)
WISDOM
• It provides wisdom for daily living
• The wisdom of God is at work in history: he had a plan
which develops step by step, even though the people were
free. Many elements were involved in the realization of God’s
plan: sin, punishment, penance and forgiveness.
• Wisdom is 1.) a presence, 2.) is gained in daily living, 3.)
Inclusive, 4.) invites us into a journey, 5.) is to be cultivated
• Wisdom is to be prized above all things, and whoever
despises it is doomed to unhappiness.
PSALMS
• This book presents another dimension of salvation.
• Israel’s prayer and hymnbook
• It directly addresses God, expressing deep faith and trust in the Lord.
• Psalms of praise express thanksgiving for the saving acts of God with a
plea for His continued care. Psalms of lament speak of deliverance of
how the deliverance of God works for his people.
• The final salvific message of this book is the total commitment to the
mystery of God’s nearness and the concrete daily obedience to his
commandments (CFC)

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