| Of these at least the first, Genesis, has a notably familial and sapiential character. |
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| The Mediterranean is perhaps the most sapiential part of the world, and its history flows in this direction. |
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| At this point Mother Ballarin recalled Saint Catherine of Siena, who «offered to the word the sapiential mercy of the testimony of her faith». |
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| The Deutero-Isaiahan theme of the life-giving and creative efficacy of the Word of God will be taken up again in the sapiential tradition. |
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| They drew out of their treasures the most ancient and venerable stories and enriched them with a culture both prophetic and sapiential. |
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| It would be possible to draw up a list of charisms, focussing for the most part on that of leadership, starting from the sapiential literature of Proverbs, Wisdom, Ecclesiastes of Qoheleth and Ecclesiasticus of Ben Sirach. |
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| If we pursue this seductive analogy, the second book of Solomon, which reveals our place in the cosmos, is a mine of cosmological or sapiential teaching which may be said to represent the soul of scripture. |
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| The Legenda Maior is a long and complex text that tries to maintain a difficult balance between the need for historical truth and the theological and sapiential interpretationof the experience the saint from Siena lived. |
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| The learning of a methodology of lectio divina, and through theoretical information and practical exercises it seeks to train the Sisters to sapiential listening of the Word and a believing reading of the realty. |
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| As the distillation of generations of learned scribes, the Book of Proverbs is an excellent source for the sapiential tradition in the Old Testament. |
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| It is an important word that is found very frequently in sapiential texts still to be published officially, but so far no one seems to have discerned its proper meaning. |
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| A decisive shift occurs, however, in diaspora Judaism, as shown particularly by 4Q Sapiential Work A and Wisdom of Solomon. |
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