Proverbs: The Old Testament Library / Proverbs: Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 22

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Proverbs

by Richard J. Clifford

The Old Testament Library. Westminster John Knox, Louisville, 1999. 286 pp. $38.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-664-22131-9.

Proverbs

by Roland E. Murphy

Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 22. Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, 1998. 306 pp. $32.99 (cloth). ISBN 0-8499-0221-5.

ALTHOUGH STILL CONSIDERED BY SOME as merely a collection of banal sayings, the book of Proverbs has commanded the attention of many biblical scholars and theologians in recent years. This so-called "conventional" part of the wisdom corpus has provoked everything from feminist reflections on wisdom ...

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