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This book is a welcome addition to the increasing literature on the moral dimensions of wisdom books...

“You’re preaching from Proverbs? You’re going to preach it topically, aren’t you?” If a pastor takes it as his usual tack to preach serially through books of the Bible, and decides to embark upon a series on Proverbs, he will likely get such a question...

This paper articulates a provisional thesis, namely, that we need a pedagogical category within our biblical theological frameworks, on the basis that such a category was in the New Testament authors’ minds...

For all interested in what has been described as the Hebrew Bible’s most “practical” book, Stuart Weeks’ recent monograph on Proverbs 1–9 is welcome reading...

Some of the best textbooks and introductions have an argument of their own, rather than simply giving a run-down of previous research...

The present study guide on Proverbs includes thirteen lessons, each studying different texts...

Sandwiched between two straightforward sayings from Proverbs and Sirach, a modern aphorism from Karl Kraus pulls us up short on the brink of the Preface: ‘Who digs no grave for another falls in it himself...

These volumes are both additions to the Daily Study Bible series of commentaries...

These two books are designed to help readers apply the teaching of Proverbs to their lives...

In his preface, Clifford makes the disarming comment that the instructions found in the book of Proverbs are ‘remarkably empty of “content” ’, and that its maxims are ‘often trite’...