sapiential book
- noun
- /sæˈpɛnʃəl bʊk/
- Literature
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libro sapiencial
- Ecclesiastes is a well-known sapiential book that reflects on the meaning of life and the importance of wisdom.
Examples
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A great deal of the fatherly advice concerns women, and this concern extends through the sapiential books.
Academic text (2004) -
The relationship between Wisdom and man in the sapiential books is troubled by the close textual proximity of the Strange Woman, who is found in the same places as Wisdom, in the streets, squares, and gates; uses similar rhetorical appeals to man; and offers the same kind of physical relationship that Wisdom does.
Academic text (2004) -
Many of the teachings in the sapiential book encourage readers to seek wisdom and live ethically.
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The lessons found in the sapiential book of Proverbs help guide individuals in making moral decisions.
Synonyms
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Books from the Bible that give advice about how to live, like Proverbs and Ecclesiastes
A book in the Bible that gives advice about how to live and about faith
Surface Forms
Morphology
If a learner understands 'sapiential' as 'pertaining to wisdom' and 'book' as a bound set of pages, the compound meaning 'a book pertaining to wisdom' is directly compositional and predictable. The construction corresponds to a common adjective + noun pattern (i.e. 'X book' = a book about X), so the referent 'wisdom literature' would be clear to someone who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Sapiential book comes from the Latin word behind sapiential, which means 'wisdom', together with the word book. These were books of short wise sayings and moral advice, so today the phrase means a book about 'wisdom' and good behaviour.