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Wisdom Actors, part 2
Copyright. Permission to reprint required. In the controversial biblical book of Daniel, mischievous exegesis has limited our view to “Daniel the prophet and apocalpytist,” ignoring “Daniel the statesman” and what we can learn from him about the wisdom tradition. It’s fascinatingly instructive. Daniel the statesman exhibits many ideas and norms of the wisdom tradition lived […]
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Copyright. Permission to reprint required. This is the third in a series of articles in the International Relations 101 section about “understanding international relations and foreign policy decision making.” These articles seek to make this complex, multi-dimensional arena accessible to people outside the halls of power. The series also pulls duty as a necessary backdrop […]
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Copyright. Permission to reprint required. This is the second in a series of articles in the International Relations 101 section about “understanding international relations and foreign policy decision making.” These articles seek to make this complex, multi-dimensional arena accessible to people outside the halls of power. The series also pulls duty as a necessary backdrop […]
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Copyright. Permission to reprint required. This is the first in a series of articles in the International Relations 101 section about “understanding international relations and foreign policy decision making.” These articles seek to make this complex, multi-dimensional arena accessible to people outside the halls of power. The series also pulls duty as a necessary backdrop […]
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Bibliography The books listed below have been important to my research on: 1) domestic Christian – Muslim relations, 2) international relations and foreign policy between the United States and Muslim majority countries in the Middle East, and 3) developing wisdom-based analyses and approaches to those two contexts and their often overlooked influence on each other. […]
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Copyright. Permission to reprint required. This article identifies several prominent classes of domestic and international government officials in the royal courts old-world Middle East and highlights the political careers of several individuals who held high-level positions in those offices. It is written at an intermediate level and assumes some basic knowledge of the Christian Old […]
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Copyright. Permission to reprint required. Wisdom Words (from the Hebrew) Using this crib sheet This page may not appeal to every visitor, so feel free to give it a miss. It’s simply a crib sheet for people who might be interested in key words in the Hebrew Bible that describe classes of high-level government officials […]
Read moreWisdom Tradition – See with New Eyes
This summary review of the wisdom tradition and literature of the old-world Middle East provides a fresh look at a way of reasoning about life and decision-making that has largely been lost to us today. It needs to be recovered and practiced, particularly in a world like ours, in which people of different races, cultures, […]
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