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Definition of Sapiential book
1. Noun. Any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom.
Generic synonyms: Religious Text, Religious Writing, Sacred Text, Sacred Writing
Terms within: Book Of Proverbs, Proverbs, Book Of Ecclesiastes, Ecclesiastes, Canticle Of Canticles, Canticles, Song Of Solomon, Song Of Songs, Ben Sira, Ecclesiasticus, Sirach, Wisdom Of Jesus The Son Of Sirach, Wisdom, Wisdom Of Solomon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sapiential Book
Literary usage of Sapiential book
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"First, it would be obviously unfair to require that the contents of this Sapiential
book should come fully up to the high moral standard of Christian ethics ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"(a) Historical. (c) Apocalyptic. History of Johannes Hyr- (See separate article.)
canus. (6) Legendary. (d) Didactic or Sapiential. Book of Jubilees. ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"Liber Sapiential, Book of Wisdom). One of the apocryphal books of the Old Testament,
sometimes called also the Book of Wisdom. Solomon is introduced as the ..."
4. Special Introduction to the Study of the Old Testament by Francis Ernest Gigot (1906)
"In fact, in connecting Solomon's name \\ ith that sapiential book, " the
best-informed among them "1 meant no more than to affirm that Ecclesiasticus ..."
5. The Theology of the New Testament by George Barker Stevens (1899)
"It reads like a Jewish sapiential book, but the wisdom which is commended is the
wisdom of Jesus. From these general comments I advance to a more particular ..."
6. The Theology of the New Testament by George Barker Stevens (1899)
"It reads like a Jewish sapiential book, but the wisdom which is commended is the
wisdom of Jesus. From these general comments I advance to a more particular ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"First, it would be obviously unfair to require that the contents of this Sapiential
book should come fully up to the high moral standard of Christian ethics ..."
8. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"(a) Historical. (c) Apocalyptic. History of Johannes Hyr- (See separate article.)
canus. (6) Legendary. (d) Didactic or Sapiential. Book of Jubilees. ..."
9. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"Liber Sapiential, Book of Wisdom). One of the apocryphal books of the Old Testament,
sometimes called also the Book of Wisdom. Solomon is introduced as the ..."
10. Special Introduction to the Study of the Old Testament by Francis Ernest Gigot (1906)
"In fact, in connecting Solomon's name \\ ith that sapiential book, " the
best-informed among them "1 meant no more than to affirm that Ecclesiasticus ..."
11. The Theology of the New Testament by George Barker Stevens (1899)
"It reads like a Jewish sapiential book, but the wisdom which is commended is the
wisdom of Jesus. From these general comments I advance to a more particular ..."
12. The Theology of the New Testament by George Barker Stevens (1899)
"It reads like a Jewish sapiential book, but the wisdom which is commended is the
wisdom of Jesus. From these general comments I advance to a more particular ..."
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