Abstract

The Wisdom books of the Old Testament exhibit a pedagogy, but each one does so in a different way. The master-disciple relation appears especially in Proverbs and in Ecclesiasticus. In the Book of Wisdom, it is implicit. Job and Ecclesiastes are practically not interested in it at all. The master must acquire a competence so as to direct the disciple towards concrete values, and show him the inevitable consequences of a choice of life. The disciple is invited to listen to, and then act on the teaching of the master, who manifests his authority through his experience and his own openness to Wisdom in person. Every book develops these themes in different ways