{"id":6421,"date":"2011-04-16T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T11:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2011-04-16T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T11:09:47","slug":"wisdom-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2011\/04\/wisdom-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom of death"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\">\n<\/head><body><p><\/p><p> \u201cHades\u201d is used in some 75 verses of the LXX, usually translating the Hebrew  <em> sheol <\/em> , which is used about 65 times.  But the distyribution of the usage is not even.  Genesis uses sheol\/hades four time, but outside of Genesis the word appears infrequently in the Pentateuch (Numbers 16; Deuteronomy 32:22).  The term appears at the beginning and end of 1-2 Samuel (1 Samuel 2:6; 2 Samuel 22:6), and twice in 1 Kings 2 (vv. 6, 9).  Otherwise, it is not used in the historical books at all. <\/p>\n<p> When we open the wisdom literature, however, it pops up everywhere, and a few times in the prophetic books ( <em> hades  <\/em> in LXX: Job 7:9; 11:8; 14:13; 17:13, 16; 21:13; 26:6; 33:22; 38:17; Psalm 6:6; 9:18; 15:10; 17:6; 48:15-16; 54:16; 85:13; 87:4; 88:49; 93:17; 113:25; 114:3; 119:137; 138:8; 140:7; Prov 1:12; 2:18; 5:5; 9:18; 14:12; 15:11, 24; 16:25; 30:16; SoS 8:6; Is 14:9, 11, 15, 19; 28:15, 28; 38:10, 19; 57:9; Hos 13:14-15; Amos 9:2; Hab 2:5).  Sheol is used in fewer than 20 verses in the MT of the prophetic books, half in Isaiah.  It is used in 30+ verses in the five wisdom books. <\/p>\n<p> That suggests that biblical wisdom has something significant to do with death and the grave. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHades\u201d is used in some 75 verses of the LXX, usually translating the Hebrew sheol , which is used about 65 times. But the distyribution of the usage is not even. Genesis uses sheol\/hades four time, but outside of Genesis the word appears infrequently in the Pentateuch (Numbers 16; Deuteronomy 32:22). 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