WISDOM LITERATURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wisdom literature mean? 

• WISDOM LITERATURE (noun)
  The noun WISDOM LITERATURE has 1 sense:

1. any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom

  Familiarity information: WISDOM LITERATURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WISDOM LITERATURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

sapiential book; wisdom book; wisdom literature

Hypernyms ("wisdom literature" is a kind of...):

religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)

Meronyms (parts of "wisdom literature"):

Book of Proverbs; Proverbs (an Old Testament book consisting of proverbs from various Israeli sages (including Solomon))

Book of Ecclesiastes; Ecclesiastes (an Old Testament book consisting of reflections on the vanity of human life; is traditionally attributed to Solomon but probably was written about 250 BC)

Canticle of Canticles; Canticles; Song of Solomon; Song of Songs (an Old Testament book consisting of a collection of love poems traditionally attributed to Solomon but actually written much later)

Ben Sira; Ecclesiasticus; Sirach; Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach (an Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect))

Wisdom; Wisdom of Solomon (an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC)