Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Proverbs
Published on 18. June 2019
44 pages
978-1-4674-5372-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Eeerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary compliments succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers. Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within the overarching biblical story. Commentators focus on the genre of each text-parable, prophetic oracle, legal code, and so on-interpreting within the historical and literary context. The volumes also address major issues within each biblical book-including the range of possible interpretations-and refer readers to the best resources for further discussions.
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Proverbs
- Introduction
- Commentary
- The Meaning of Wisdom (Prov 1:1-9:18)
- The Preface to the Book (Prov 1:1-7)
- A First Hindrance to Wisdom - Evil Companions (Prov 1:8-19)
- The Call of Wisdom (Prov 1:20-33)
- The Path of Temptation (Prov 2:1-22)
- Wisdom and Piety (Prov 3:1-12)
- In Praise of Wisdom (Prov 3:13-20)
- Wisdom and the Good Neighbor (Prov 3:21-35)
- The Commendation of Wisdom (Prov 4:1-27)
- The Foolishness of Sexual Infidelity (Prov 5:1-23)
- Warnings concerning Personal Responsibility (Prov 6:1-19)
- Further Condemnation of Sexual Misconduct (Prov 6:20-35)
- Further Warnings concerning Sexual Temptation (Prov 7:1-27)
- Wisdom in All Her Beauty (Prov 8:1-36)
- Life's Choices - Wisdom or Folly (Prov 9:1-18)
- The Proverbs of Solomon (Prov 10:1-15:33)
- Wisdom as the Key to Virtue (Prov 10:1-32)
- The Righteous and the Wicked (Prov 11:1-31)
- The Foundations of Character (Prov 12:1-28)
- The Happiness of the Righteous (Prov 13:1-25)
- The House Built by Wisdom (Prov 14:1-35)
- The Eyes of the Lord Are in Every Place (Prov 15:1-33)
- Further Proverbs of Solomon (Prov 16:1-22:19)
- The Lord Weighs the Spirit (Prov 16:1-33)
- Fools and Their Folly (Prov 17:1-28)
- The Words of the Mouth (Prov 18:1-24)
- Wealth, Poverty, and the Quality of Life (Prov 19:1-29)
- The King upon His Throne (Prov 20:1-30)
- The Fate of the Wicked (Prov 21:1-31)
- Reputation and Reward (Prov 22:1-16)
- Further Words of the Wise (Prov 22:17-24:22)
- The Words of the Wise (Prov 22:17-29)
- Reflections on Life at a Royal Court (Prov 23:1-35)
- The Superiority of Wisdom (Prov 24:1-22)
- Further Sayings of the Wise (Prov 24:23-34)
- Supplements to the Teaching of Wisdom (Prov 25:1-29:27)
- The Throne of Justice (Prov 25:1-28)
- Folly, Laziness, and Evil Speaking - Three Enemies of the Good Life (Prov 26:1-28)
- The Fates of the Righteous and the Wicked (Prov 28:1-28)
- Lifestyles of the Righteous and the Wicked (Prov 29:1-27)
- Sayings of Agur (Prov 30:1-14)
- Numerical Sayings (Prov 30:15-33)
- The Words of King Lemuel (Prov 31:1-9)
- The Role of the Virtuous Woman (Prov 31:10-31)
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