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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...

dependent upon him. Consequently, there is no dichotomy between sacred and secular spheres of life in the worldview of wisdom. All of life is viewed in terms of its relationship with the creator. Second, Yahweh is sovereignly controlling the world which he created. This divine order produces a significant degree of predictability between acts and consequences, because the righteous character of Yahweh provides moral governance to the universe. Wisdom seeks to discover the order which Yahweh has embedded
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