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In Preaching Proverbs, Dr. Tremper Longman III provides a thorough overview of the book of Proverbs and answers essential questions about the text. He begins by looking at the context of ancient Sumerian and Egyptian proverbs, and he then considers the structure of the biblical book of Proverbs. Dr. Longman covers the practical, ethical, and theological nature of this text and provides an...

In other words, when we talk about proverbs in the English language, we typically refer to very short, catchy statements: “haste makes waste”; “a stitch in time saves nine”; “the early bird catches the worm.” And what we have in Prov 10–31 is the Hebrew equivalent. We’ll talk more about that analogy later, but right now I just want to introduce the fact that Prov 10–31 contains those types of instructional literature.
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