2023-01-182023-01-182013https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/56964Critical wisdom literature in ancient Judah offers a paradigm for understanding the rejection of the teachings of the justice of God and retribution. This negation of foundational sapiential teachings provides the basis for a moral paradigm of postcolonial hermeneutics in which there is a movement towards the establishment of social justice for the poor and marginalized in native culturesen-USWisdom literatureJudahpostcolonical hermeneuticssocial justiceArticleCC BY-NC-ND 4.0https://doi.org/10.7833/81-0-746