Proverbs: A Commentary (The Old Testament Library)

Through translation, technical notes, and insightful commentary, Richard Clifford sheds new understanding on Proverbs. By focusing on the rhetoric of Proverbs, Clifford demonstrates how the book fosters a lifelong search for wisdom, and enables readers to see how the instructions and sayings are concerned with contemporary issues. Through exacting translation, technical notes, and insightful commentary, Richard Clifford sheds new light on the book of Proverbs. He focuses on the rhetoric of Proverbs to demonstrate how the book fosters a lifelong search for wisdom and to enable readers to see how its instructions and maxims are concerned with contemporary issues. Clifford unveils the fascinating aspects of Proverbs - its wit and irony, honesty and profundity, drama and conflict, and, ultimately, its concern with wisdom as a fundamental option in life. Like Egyptian instructions, which typically open with "the beginning of the instruction of X for his son Y," Proverbs 1 gives the title, names the author, and states the purpose of the book and its benefits to the reader. INTRODUCTION Proverbs 9 Proverbs 11 Proverbs 15 Proverbs 20 Proverbs 21 Proverbs 25 Proverbs 27 Proverbs 28 Proverbs 31