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The Composition of the Book of Proverbs is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this book, R. N. Whybray presents his classic exposition on the book of Proverbs. Readable yet academic, he outlines the entire book of Proverbs, with the purpose of tracing the development of composition. Much attention is given to the intended audience, the many authors of the book, and purpose of the book itself. Whybray provides helpful observations on the overall style and history of...

to any investigation of the phenomena is to begin with the presupposition that the material contains no ‘isolated’ proverbs: that it must be forced, willy-nilly, into some kind of group. It must also be recognized that there may be groups of more than one kind. It is clear that, with few exceptions, these chapters do not contain closely knit, structured poems like those found in chs. 1–9 and 31:1–31. Whatever groups are to be found here are necessarily of a looser kind, since they are literary constructions
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