The Book of the Proverbs: A Survey of Modern StudyThis volume, the first of its kind, surveys Proverbs studies from 1870 to the present day. It describes theories of origins and background (affinities with international wisdom, supposed rootage in court, school and tribal wisdom), literary and structural aspects such as the nature of Hebrew poetry and the composition of the proverb collections, the special problems of chapters 1-9, 22: 16-24: 34 and 30-31, theological ideas (especially relationships with Egyptian wisdom texts and with characteristic Old Testament teaching), date, text and versions. This work will be of interest to all teachers and students of Proverbs, but is especially directed to the needs of those preparing or directing doctoral dissertations. The bibliography lists 350 books and articles, all of which are discussed in the text and notes. |
Contents
29 | 10 |
62 | 18 |
172422 and 242334 | 24 |
Proverbs 3031 | 30 |
Ideas and Theology | 112 |
Dating the Book of Proverbs | 150 |
Introduction | 158 |
Appendix | 165 |
| 179 | |
Common terms and phrases
acrostic admonition alliteration Alten Testament Amenope ancient Near East argued Biblical Book of Proverbs BOSTRÖM century B.C. chapters 1-9 character collections commentary composition concept of wisdom concerned couplets creation theology critical DELITZSCH discussion distinct earlier Egypt Egyptian Instructions Egyptian wisdom erbs especially example fact fear of Yahweh figure of Wisdom GEMSER Hebrew Poetry HERMISSON human influence interpretation Israel Israelite wisdom J.L. CRENSHAW JSOT KAYATZ later literary Maat material MCCREESH MCKANE meaning MEINHOLD Mesopotamian monotheism non-Israelite numerical proverbs OESTERLEY Old Testament original parallel paronomasia period personified PLÖGER poem pointed popular proverbs post-exilic pre-exilic Press prophets Prov question R.B.Y. SCOTT R.N. WHYBRAY references regarded relationship religious S.R. DRIVER Sagesse scholars schools Semitic sentence literature Septuagint SKLADNY Solomon Sprüche STEIERT structure Studien teaching theology theory tradition Ugaritic Verlag verses Weisheit WESTERMANN whole wife wisdom literature wise woman women word Yahwistic ZIMMERLI
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