The best book ever written on wisdom: The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis, by Leon Kass. Wisdom + brokenness were there from the beginning, built into the ancient Hebrew. It was not about seeing so-called reality, but hearing the spiritual, aka God.
Amos 9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
The best book ever written on wisdom: The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis, by Leon Kass. Wisdom + brokenness were there from the beginning, built into the ancient Hebrew. It was not about seeing so-called reality, but hearing the spiritual, aka God.
The good old days will come again:
Amos 9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
“…when men sacrificed their children in the hope of bringing rain.”—A. Klavan
Or favorable winds, and that can be your undoing.
As I was reading that sentence, I instantly was taken back to the Iliad. Yes, I was there, because I’m that old.
Don’t start with the bloody spear chuckers again 😂