WHERE IS THE WISDOM? (JOB 28:12): THE LIMITS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE

Abstract

It is very important to know the historical development of the sapiential system in ancient Israel to understand the context of the emergence of Christianity within plural Judaism in the period of the second Temple. Thus, this article aims to investigate the sapiential crisis and its
theological and sociological repercussions not only for the 6th century BC - 1st AD, but also
for future generations. The study was carried out through bibliographic research of a qualitative
nature and with a hermeneutic focus. The research is based on biblical texts BÍBLIA (2002),
with the study of the Hebrew vocabulary in STRONG (1995), an overview on the development
of the sapiential movement in ASENSIO (2008) and the inaccessibility of wisdom in the book
of Job based on DELL's thesis (1991). The article is structured in two main moments: the development of wisdom until its identification with the Torah; the questions about accessibility
and inaccessibility of wisdom. The results obtained with the research highlight that after
realizing the accessibility of the wisdom that manifests itself both in creation (its universality)
and in its identification with the Torah (its particularity), the sages of ancient Israel, came to the conclusion that it is in the existential experience with the Lord that the human being finds wisdom.