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In this chapter, I will return to a largely forgotten Biblical tradition, namely the Wisdom School belief in Wisdom as an innate force of nature that is an integral part of the cosmic design involving peace in/with Earth. I shall begin by identifying several Biblical traditions which did not promote peace in/with Earth, traditions which we have long recognised as normative while ignoring the Wisdom tradition of innate eco-Wisdom. Subsequently, I explore key texts where the various dimensions of innate Wisdom are embedded and articulated, texts such as Job 28, Proverbs 8 and Job 38–39. I also discuss how innate Wisdom is related to ecology, climate trauma and peace consciousness and how this awareness, following the journey of Job, enables us to discern a God of cosmic shalom.
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Notes
- 1.
Norman Habel, An Inconvenient Text (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2009), 1–10.
- 2.
Norman Habel, Finding Wisdom in Nature: An Ecological Reading of the Book of Job (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014), Chapter 8.
- 3.
Norman C. Habel, Discerning Wisdom in God’s Creation: Following the Way of Ancient Scientists (Melbourne: Morning Star, 2015), Chapters 1 and 2.
- 4.
Ellen van Wolde (ed.), Job 28: Cognition in Context (Biblical Interpretation Series, vol. 64) (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2003).
- 5.
Habel, Discerning Wisdom in God’s Creation.
- 6.
Zhiwa Woodbury, ‘Climate Trauma: Toward a New Taxonomy of Trauma’, Ecopsychology 11, 31 January 2019, 1, https://doi.org/10.1089/eco.2018.0021.
- 7.
Habel, Discerning Wisdom in God’s Creation, Chapter 4.
- 8.
Job 28.17; Habel, Discerning Wisdom in God’s Creation, Chapter 3.
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Habel, Discerning Wisdom in God’s Creation, Chapter 2.
- 10.
David Janzen, The Violent Gift: Trauma’s Subversion of the Deuteronomistic History’s Narrative (New York: T & T Clark, 2012); Andre Lacocque, ‘The Deconstruction of Job’s Fundamentalism’, JBL, 2007, 126, 83–97.
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Habel, N. (2020). Innate Wisdom—Peace on/in/with Earth. In: Camilleri, J., Guess, D. (eds) Towards a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5021-8_8
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