A detailed examination of Proverbs 1-9, an early Jewish poetic work. Stuart Weeks incorporates studies of literature from ancient Egypt and from the Dead Sea scrolls, but his focus is on the background and use of certain key images in the text. Proverbs 1-9 belongs to an important class of biblical literature (wisdom literature), and is less well known as a whole than the related books of Job and Ecclesiastes, partly because it has been viewed until recently as a dull and muddled school-book. However, parts of it have been profoundly influential on the development of both Judaism and Christianity, and occupy a key role in modern feminist theology. Weeks demonstrates that those parts belong to a much broader and more intricate set of ideas than older scholarship allowed.
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"The book is a fine example of the literary critical perspective. ...His analysis is always careful and cautious, and he refuses to speculate much beyond the evidence. ...Weeks's book is nothing short of brilliant and is written in elegant prose. I predict it will become a classic in biblical studies." --Journal of Religion
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Stuart Weeks is Senior Lecturer in Old Testament and Hebrew, Durham University.
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For all its unusual characteristics, Hebrew literature did not develop in a cultural or literary vacuum, and it is widely recognized that certain genres drew on forms and conventions borrowed from elsewhere. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
path imagery, parental appeals, foreign instructions, instructional speech, second stich, instruction genre, first stich, foreign woman, personified wisdom, biblical wisdom literature, annotated translation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ben Sira, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom, Primary Material, New York, The Significance of Proverbs, Ancient Israel, Sheffield Academic Press, Clarendon Press, The Character of Early Instructions, Universitätsverlag Freiburg Schweiz, Wisdom of Solomon, Aramaic Proverbs, Near Eastern, Dead Sea Scrolls, Grand Rapids, John Knox Press, Old Testament, Secondary Developments, Babylonian Wisdom Literature, Claudia Camp, Die Poesie, Feminist Companion, Papyrus Insinger, Winton Thomas New!
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For all its unusual characteristics, Hebrew literature did not develop in a cultural or literary vacuum, and it is widely recognized that certain genres drew on forms and conventions borrowed from elsewhere. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
path imagery, parental appeals, foreign instructions, instructional speech, second stich, instruction genre, first stich, foreign woman, personified wisdom, biblical wisdom literature, annotated translation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ben Sira, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom, Primary Material, New York, The Significance of Proverbs, Ancient Israel, Sheffield Academic Press, Clarendon Press, The Character of Early Instructions, Universitätsverlag Freiburg Schweiz, Wisdom of Solomon, Aramaic Proverbs, Near Eastern, Dead Sea Scrolls, Grand Rapids, John Knox Press, Old Testament, Secondary Developments, Babylonian Wisdom Literature, Claudia Camp, Die Poesie, Feminist Companion, Papyrus Insinger, Winton Thomas New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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