Living in good relationships with others is actually really complicated.

The way I treat my best friend with respect and love is different than the way I should

treat my wife with respect and love, or my boss with respect and love.

What works one day won't work the next day.

And knowing the right thing to do in any given situation is, well, really messy.

There's lots of different ways to be human.

Some of them are going to lead to life and abundance and healthy relationships and justice

and flourishing communities.

Then there's other ways of being human that will lead to broken relationships and injustice

and violence and poverty in my communities and despair and depression.

How do you know what's the right way to be a human?

I'm John Collins and this is Bible Project Podcast.

Today I'm talking with my friends and scholars, Dr. Tim McE and Dr. Karisakwin, and we will

be discussing Hokuma.

It's the Hebrew word for wisdom.

This is part of our paradigm series where we're looking at how we see the Bible, the way

we think biblical literature works.

And today we'll discuss how the Bible is wisdom literature.

Wisdom literature is often in biblical studies, a title that refers to a handful of books

within the Bible.

What's the whole thing?

Well, we may invite this a little bit different.

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