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Proverbs: A Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Through translation, technical notes, and insightful commentary, Richard Clifford sheds new understanding on Proverbs. By focusing on the rhetoric of Proverbs, Clifford demonstrates how the book fosters a lifelong search for wisdom, and enables readers to see how the instructions and sayings are concerned with contemporary issues.

6  for understanding a proverb and a riddle, the sayings of the sages and their riddles. 7  The beginning of knowledge is revering Yahweh; only fools despise wisdom and instruction. Like Egyptian instructions, which typically open with “the beginning of the instruction of X for his son Y,” Proverbs 1 gives the title, names the author, and states the purpose of the book and its benefits to the reader. Apart from instructions in Egyptian literature and the wisdom books in the Bible, Egyptian and most
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