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Proverbs
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ISBN: 0836192923 1417577746 9781417577743 9780836192926 9780836197983 0836197984 Year: 2004 Publisher: Scottdale, Pa. Herald Press


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Proverbs
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ISBN: 0834135795 9780834135796 9780834135307 0834135302 Year: 2016 Publisher: Kansas City Nazarene Publishing House

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Engaging, perceptive, and academically thorough, the New Beacon Bible Commentary will expand your understanding and deepen your appreciation for the meaning and message of each book of the Bible. Written from the Wesleyan theological perspective, this commentary provides pastors, professional scholars, teachers, and Bible students with a critical, relevant, and inspiring interpretation of the Word of God in the 21st century. Each volume featurs contemporary scholarship from notable experts in the Wesleyan theological tradition. -- Publisher.


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Proverbs and the African tree of life
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ISBN: 9004274472 9789004274471 9789004274402 9004274405 1322128308 Year: 2014 Publisher: Boston

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In Proverbs and the African Tree of Life Dorothy BEA Akoto-Abutiate juxtaposes chosen sayings from Proverbs and selected Ewe Folk proverbs using the agricultural metaphor of “grafting,” which she calls a “hermeneutic of grafting.” Though these two sets of sayings come from completely different cultural contexts, Akoto argues that folk sayings/proverbs, which abound in Africa, should be considered as an already mature, established tree on to which a piece of the biblical tree is spliced or engrafted to produce hybridized fruits that have uniquely different tastes than the fruits of each tree individually. This metaphorical grafting process allows the message of the Bible (in Proverbs) to be understood, imbibed and appropriated in Africa.


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God's book of Proverbs
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ISBN: 1462778690 9781462778690 9781462780013 1462780016 Year: 2018 Publisher: Nashville, TN

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This collection of the Proverbs uniquely arranges the individual pieces of wisdom by topic, making it easy for graduates to turn to for advice on the specific situations they face as they begin their next chapter of life.

The book of Proverbs in social and theological context
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ISBN: 0521633052 9780521633055 9780511488306 9780521121064 9780511225963 0511225962 0511225393 9780511225390 0511224702 9780511224706 9780511224034 0511224036 0511488300 1280541288 9781280541285 1107157749 9781107157743 0511316984 9780511316982 052112106X Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press

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The book of Proverbs is the starting point of the biblical wisdom tradition. But how did individual proverbs, instructions and poems come together to form the various collections we have today? Katharine Dell explores the possible social contexts for this varied material in the royal court, wisdom schools and popular culture. She draws shrewdly on materials from the wisdom traditions of the ancient Near East, in particular Egypt, in order to bolster and enhance her theories. She argues that Proverbs had a theological purpose from its conception, with God's creativity being an integral theme of the text rather than one added in later redactions. Dell also shows that echoes of other Old Testament genres such as prophecy, law and cult can be found in Proverbs, notably in chapters 1-9, and that its social and theological context is much broader than scholars have recognised in the past.


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Animal imagery in the book of Proverbs
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ISSN: 00835889 ISBN: 9789004162877 9004162879 9786611939823 128193982X 9047423623 9789047423621 Year: 2008 Volume: 118 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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Any treatment of the figurative and symbolic function of animal imagery in biblical literature requires special attention to its contextual meaning and cultural evaluation. The present study aims to demonstrate how this is particularly true of the Book of Proverbs, in which faunal imageries serve as a didactic means for delving into the more obvious truths of human behavior. This book makes a methodological contribution toward understanding the didactic function of Proverb's animal imageries by offering an ongoing three-pronged analysis: a. Zoological identification and literary perception of the animal in the Bible; born Hermeneutic dynamics between the specific animal simile and its literary adaptation; c. Rhetorical function of the animal imagery within the conceptual framework of the Book of Proverbs.


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Toward an interpretation of the book of Proverbs
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ISBN: 9781575067070 9781575068572 1575068575 1575067072 Year: 2013 Volume: 7 Publisher: Winona Lake, Indiana

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Major religious themes of the Bible, such as election and covenant, are not mentioned in the book of Proverbs. Furthermore, self-interest underlies its motivational system (“you shall behave well, because it will be good for you”). These “selfish” and “secular” features have posed serious ethical and theological challenges for some interpreters, while others have claimed that their presence is only in the eyes of the beholder.After a thorough investigation of the history of Proverbs’ interpretation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Zoltán Schwáb argues that its self-interested and secular nature should not be simply affirmed or dismissed. The question is not whether Proverbs is selfish and secular but in what ways it is selfish and secular and within what conceptual framework one is supposed to interpret these characteristics. In order to construct a proper framework, Schwáb uses such diverse sources as Thomas Aquinas’ theological ethics, modern secularization theories, ancient Near Eastern temple ideology, and the theological tradition of God’s incomprehensibility. The result is a reading that simultaneously reflects on the ancient context of the text and the concerns of its readers in a secular world.


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Poetic imagination in Proverbs
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ISBN: 1575066963 9781575066967 9781575068107 1575068109 Year: 2012 Publisher: Winona Lake, Ind. Eisenbrauns

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No fewer than 223 verses in Proverbs appear two times (79 sets), three times (15 sets), or even four times (5 sets) in identical or slightly altered form—more than 24% of the book. Heim analyzes all of these, presenting them in delineated Hebrew lines and in English translation. Where appropriate, the translations are followed by textual notes that discuss uncertainties regarding the textual witnesses (textual criticism) and explore lexical, grammatical, and syntactical problems. Heim also analyzes the way the parallelism in each verse of a variant set has been constructed, presenting diagrams and tables with columns that highlight the corresponding similarities and differences among repeated verses. Key to this investigation is the search for links between the variants and their surrounding verses, such as repetitions of sound and sense. Heim shows that most variant repetitions result from skillful poetic creativity. Reconstruction of the editorial and creative poetic process highlights what poets did, how they did it, and why they did it. He develops criteria for determining the direction of borrowing between the verses and demonstrates that the phenomenon of variant repetition is an editorial concern that operates on the level of the book as a whole. He develops and refines a range of interpretive techniques and skills, arrives at fresh interpretations, and shows that ancient proverbial wisdom is relevant to modern societies. This study sheds new light on the nature of biblical poetry and on the methods and virtues best suited for its study. While specific to the book of Proverbs in the first instance, the findings in this study apply to poetry elsewhere. Three fundamental insights should inform future work on poetry: the creative combination of repetition with variation is the very essence of poetry; what has been written with imagination should be read with imagination; imaginative interpretation values the normal features of poetic expression and celebrates the truly unusual.


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Metaphors in Proverbs
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ISBN: 9789004466050 9789004464100 9004464107 9004466053 Year: 2021 Volume: 188 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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"Proverbs is a poetic book full of images and metaphors, many of which are often obscure and enigmatic. In this volume, Rotasperti offers a contribution to the understanding of figurative language in Proverbs by looking at the grammatical and social contexts in which many of the book's metaphors appear. The brief introduction explains the process and methodological assumptions used for identifying metaphors. The study then continues with a lexical review of four semantic categories: the body, urban fabric, nature and animals. The result of this survey is a deep analysis of several key metaphors that looks at their composition, structure, and interpretation"--

Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon
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ISBN: 0830897348 9780830897346 0830814795 9780830814794 0830843442 9780830843442 Year: 2005 Publisher: Downers Grove, Ill. InterVarsity Press

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Editor J. Robert Wright presents commentary on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon, showcasing response by the early church fathers to what they judged to be the finest wisdom about the deeper issues of life prior to the time of God's taking human form in Jesus Christ.

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Bible. --- Chŏndo sŏ (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chŏndosŏ (Book of the Old Testament) --- Coheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ecclesiastes (Book of the Old Testament) --- Eclesiastes (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ekklesīast (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ekklēsiastēs (Book of the Old Testament) --- Koheles (Book of the Old Testament) --- Kohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- Koheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Megilat Kohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- O-que-sabe (Book of the Old Testament) --- Prediger Salomo (Book of the Old Testament) --- Propovednik tsari︠a︡ Solomona (Book of the Old Testament) --- Propovi︠e︡dnik tsari︠a︡ Solomona (Book of the Old Testament) --- Qohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- Qoheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Aga-sŏ (Book of the Old Testament) --- Asma Asmatōn (Book of the Old Testament) --- Cantar de los Cantares de Salomón (Book of the Old Testament) --- Cântarea-a Cântărilor (Book of the Old Testament) --- Cantica Canticorum (Book of the Old Testament) --- Canticle of Canticles (Book of the Old Testament) --- Canticles (Book of the Old Testament) --- Cantico dei Cantici (Book of the Old Testament) --- Canticum Canticorum Salomonis (Book of the Old Testament) --- Cantique des Cantiques (Book of the Old Testament) --- Énekek Éneke (Book of the Old Testament) --- Erg Ergotsʻ Soghomoni (Book of the Old Testament) --- Hohelied (Book of the Old Testament) --- Hooglied (Book of the Old Testament) --- Lied der Lieder (Book of the Old Testament) --- Musthikaning Kidung anggitane Sang Prabu Suleman (Book of the Old Testament) --- Musthikaning Kidung (Book of the Old Testament) --- Nashīd al-Anāshīd (Book of the Old Testament) --- Nashīd al-Anshād (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shir ha-Shirim (Book of the Old Testament) --- Solomon, Song of (Book of the Old Testament) --- Song of Solomon (Book of the Old Testament) --- Song of Songs (Book of the Old Testament) --- Liber proverbiorum (Book of the Bible) --- Mishle (Book of the Old Testament) --- Mishle Shelomoh --- Paroimiai Solomōntos --- Proverbes de Salemon --- Proverbia Salomonis --- Proverbios (Book of the Old Testament) --- Proverbs (Book of the Old Testament) --- Przypowieści Salomonowe --- Salomons Ordspråk --- Salomos Wijsheet --- Sprüche Salomos --- 223.4 --- 223.5 --- 223.6 --- Boek der Spreuken --- Prediker. Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) --- Hooglied

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