This research was carried out in 1987 under one of this researcher's teachers, a student of William Foxwell Albright, Charles F. Fensham. Egyptian and Israelite wisdom has some features in common worth looking at. There are similarities and there are differences.

In the first section the intention is to find a frame with which one will obtain a key understanding of the wisdom, in any culture. In the second section the intention is to test the frame by giving examples from Egypt and Israel wisdom literature. In the third section the similarities and differences are presented.

The wisdom genre addresses the issues of argology (Creation, origin) ontology (the struggle between good and evil) and teleology (the concept of eschatology or the time of the end). All three aspects are symbolized in the cult design. Wisdom has an interplay between man and things, man and the realm of God or the gods (Egypt). What mans concept is of argology, ontology and teleology will have a direct impact on what man will design (Egyptians) in their cult to satisfy the realm of the gods. The construction agenda of the cult is determined by the cosmos and realm of the gods view of the Egyptian. The cult serves then to solve the puzzles and needs of humanity related to where they came from, why they exist and where they will be going in the afterlife.

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