Instruction and imagery in Proverbs 1-9 / Stuart Weeks.

Author
Weeks, Stuart [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description
1 online resource (273 p.)

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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 muddledschool-book. However, parts of it have been profoundly influential on the development of both Judaism and Christiani
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-245) and index.
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English
Contents
  • Introduction
  • The instruction in the ancient Near East
  • Proverbs 1-9 as an instruction
  • Themes and imagery in Proverbs 1-9
  • Wisdom and the character of instruction
  • The 'foreign woman' and the path imagery
  • The significance of Proverbs 1-9
  • Annotated translation.
Other title(s)
Bible. O.T. Proverbs I-IX. English. Weeks. 2007.
ISBN
  • 0-19-153761-6
  • 1-281-15488-1
  • 1-4356-2361-4
  • 9786611154882
OCLC
206934670
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