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Title: Proverbs


1
Proverbs
  • HUMA 3810

2
Wisdom Literature
  • problems of definition cosmopolitan/parallels in
    other cultures
  • hôkhmâ wisdom ? skill
  • wisdom books (Psalms?), Proverbs, Job,
    Ecclesiastes (Ecclesiasticus, Ben-Sirach, Wisdom
    of Solomon)
  • types of wisdom
  • family commonsense evaluations of a secular
    nature
  • court lists and classifications
  • religious moral/ethical
  • Bandstras categories (following Crenshaw)
  • Nature Wisdom (from real world observations)
  • Practical Wisdom (analysis of social order)
  • Judicial Wisdom (adjudication of disputes)
  • Theological Wisdom (answers to seemingly
    insoluble problems)

3
Structure of Proverbs
  • 11-7 Introduction
  • 18-918 Discourses and cautions
  • 101-2216 Proverbs of Solomon I
  • 2217-2314 Sayings of the Wise I
  • 2315-2422 More discourses and cautions
  • 2423-34 Sayings of the Wise II
  • 251-2927 Proverbs of Solomon II (copied by
    Hezekiah)
  • 30 Words of Agur (3/4 pattern in vss. 15, 18,
    21, 29)
  • 311-9 Words of Lemuel
  • 3110-31 Eshet Hayil

4
Contrasting Figures
  • Woman Wisdom
  • 120-33 81-36 91-6
  • Foreign (Strange) Woman
  • 216-19 51-23 620-35 76-27 913-18
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