Proverbs 10-31 : a new translation with introduction and commentary / Michael V. Fox.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
  • New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2009.
  • London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
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  • Bible. English. Anchor Bible. 1964 ; v. 18B. [More in this series]
  • Bible. English. Anchor Yale Bible. 2008 ; v. 18B. [More in this series]
  • Anchor Bible ; 18B
  • Anchor Yale Bible ; 18B
  • Anchor Yale Bible Commentary Series
Summary note
This volume completes Bible scholar Michael V. Fox's comprehensive commentary on the book of Proverbs. As in his previous volume on the early chapters of Proverbs, the author here translates and explains in accessible language the meaning and literary qualities of the sayings and poems that comprise the final chapters. He gives special attention to comparable sayings in other wisdom books, particularly from Egypt, and makes extensive use of medieval Hebrew commentaries, which have received scant attention in previous Proverb commentaries. In separate sections set in smaller type, the author addresses technical issues of text and language for interested scholars. The author's essays at the end of the commentary view the book of Proverbs in its entirety and investigate its ideas of wisdom, ethics, revelation, and knowledge. Out of Proverbs' great variety of sayings from different times, Fox shows, there emerges a unified vision of life, its obligations, and its potentials.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 20 September 2021).
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English
Contents
  • Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Sigla; Corrections and Developments; Miscellanea; Pagination; Small Type; Typography; Internal References; Citations; Verse-Segments; Ahiqar References; Translation; Joining Lines in Couplets; "Man"; Recent Commentaries Used; Units of Proverbs; INTRODUCTION; I. Reading Proverbs as a Collection; A. "A Sweet Disorder"; B. Grouping Proverbs; C. Religious Proverbs and Contextual Interplay; II. Reading a Proverb; A. Oral Performance; B. Sound Patterns; C. Proverb Permutations; D. Parallelism; E. Disjointed Proverbs
  • III. The Dating and Social Setting of the Proverb CollectionsA. The Growth of the Book of Proverbs; B. The Social Setting of Proverbs 10-29; C. Linguistic Indicators of Dating in Proverbs 10-29; TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY; Part II: Proverbs 10:1-22:16-"Proverbs of Solomon"; Part IIa: Proverbs 10:1-15:33; Part IIb: Proverbs 16:1-22:16; Part III: Proverbs 22:17-24:22-"Words of the Wise": The Thirty Maxims; Part IIIa: Proverbs 22:17-23:11-The Amenemope Collection; Part IIIb: Proverbs 23:12-24:22-Words of the Wise, Continued; The Foreign Background of Proverbs 22:17-24:22
  • Part IV: Proverbs 24:23-34-More Words of the WisePart V: Proverbs 25:1-29:27-The Hezekian Collection; Part Va: Proverbs 25:1-26:28; Part Vb: Proverbs 27:1-29:27; Part VI: Proverbs 30:1-31:31-Four Appendices; Part VIa: Proverbs 30:1-9-The Words of Agur; Part VIb: Proverbs 30:10-33-Epigrams and Aphorisms; Part VIc: Proverbs 31:1-9-The Teaching of Lemuel's Mother; Part VId: Proverbs 31:10-31-The Woman of Strength; ESSAYS; Introduction to Essays 5-8; Essay 5. The Growth of Wisdom; I. Stages in Proverbs; II. Stage 1: The Older Collections (Proverbs 10-29); III. Stage 2: The Prologue and Lectures
  • IV. Stage 3: The InterludesEssay 6. Ethics; I. The Primary Axiom; II. The Ethics of Proverbs and the Socratic Principles; III. The Use of the Mind; Essay 7. Revelation; I. The Autonomy of Wisdom; II. Proverbs' View of Revelation; III. Torah and Wisdom; Essay 8. Knowledge; I. Empiricism?; II. Coherence Theory; TEXTUAL NOTES; Using the Textual Traditions; I. Qumran; II. The Versions: Further Remarks; Textual Notes; TRANSLATION OF THE BOOK OF PROVERBS; BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR VOLUMES I AND II; I. Primary Sources, Foreign; A. Egyptian Wisdom and Related Texts; B. Mesopotamian Wisdom; C. Syrian Wisdom
  • II. Traditional Jewish ExegesisIII. Modern Scholarship; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; Index of Selected Articles; Index of Scriptural and Postbiblical Jewish Sources; Index of Ancient Near Eastern Sources; Index of Hebrew and Aramaic Words
ISBN
9780300262124
OCLC
1269239296
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  • 10.5040/9780300262124
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