Learning from the Sages

Superior studies on salient themes and texts of Proverbs now join similar anthologies on Job and Ecclesiastes that have been compiled by Roy B. Zuck. 'Learning from the Sages' assembles thirty-two essays by twenty-seven scholars, covering genre, themes, and expositions of selected passages. Some include technical details of Hebrew, but in-depth linguistic knowledge is not necessary. Part 1 looks at the structure, context, and message of Proverbs, and offers suggestions on understanding its content, terms used, and metaphors for wisdom, wealth, and poverty. Essays on individual texts are arranged in canonical order in Part 2. Commentators discuss such memorable sections as the advice to young men in Chapter 3, the seductress of Chapter 5, and the comparisons of the fool and the wise. Contributors include Kathleen Farmer, R.N. Whybray, William Mouser, Jr., Bruce Waltke, William McKane, Roland Murphy, Duane Garrett, Sid Buzzell, Allen Ross, and David Hubbard.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592443974
• ISBN13: 9781592443970
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Resource on the Proverbs!

This is an edited book by Zuck of mostly journal articles from a wide variety of authors. If you have access to a good theological library, you can probably track down most of these articles. But if you don't have the time or access to do that, this book does a great job of combining a number of resources in one volume. At 32 articles total, 10 deal with 'Overview and Themes' (Part 1) and 22 deal with 'Exposition of Specific Passages (Part 2). Like any edited work with a large number of contributors (27), one should not expect to agree with all the articles. But there is enough here of value that I think anyone studying the Proverbs would greatly benefit from. Along with Raymond van Leeuwen's 'Context and Meaning', these might be two of the better resources out there on Proverbs.