Wisdom, Prayer and Kingly Pattern

Abstract

Regality is a well known term in anthropology (ancient Middle Eastern, biblical or otherwise). But – as Karl Rahner affirms – anthropology always implies not only spirituality and morality, but even theology and soteriology and viceversa. The present essay will try, in primis, to elaborate the correlation of the theological, anthropological and spiritual implications applicable to Wis 9 to express the overall model of thinking there contained. In a second instance it will suggest a comparison with the Qoheletian model, which in that sense may prove to be rich in order to disclose the inner limits to biblical theology of the sapiential tradition. The main method adopted here will be the rhetorical-narrative one, while – as to the approach – some specific attention will be paid to the one of the psychological-psychoanalytical type. All this contributes to highlighting the poetics of the Book of Wisdom, which can possibly be defined as spiritual, prayerful poetics, typical of research into prayer and of remembrance filled with praise.