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Hear, My Son: Teaching and Learning in Proverbs 1–9 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Even a cursory reading of the book of Proverbs reveals that it is dominated by the subject of education, or personal formation. The voice of the teacher addressing his pupils resounds from its pages. A wide array of topics is presented, and frequent exhortations challenge the learner to hear and heed the teacher’s instruction. This material, however, comes, for the most part, without recognizable...

The worldview of Proverbs begins with the assumption that Yahweh was the sole creator of the universe. In addition, it holds that Yahweh’s control over the world is continuing, active and personal. Because of this, the world is not driven about by erratic, arbitrary and accidental forces, but it is maintained and directed by the order which Yahweh established at creation. Right from the beginning Yahweh willed that the world be stable and orderly
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