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

Since 2004, Bruce Waltke’s magisterial two-volume NICOT commentary on the book of Proverbs has been recognized as a definitive exegesis of the Hebrew text, groundbreaking in its illuminating analysis that the authors and redactors of Proverbs had organized their material into discernible clusters and groupings. Waltke and Ivan De Silva here offer an abridged and revised version of the preeminent...

B are mostly synthetic and show a much greater concern for the king and future functionaries at the royal court. Collection III is commonly referred to as the “Thirty Sayings of the Wise.” Its own preamble (22:17–21) debatably refers to thirty sayings (22:20). Its preamble and especially its first ten sayings have striking similarities with the thirty sayings of the Egyptian Instruction of Amenemope (ca. 1186–1069 B.C.) as selected examples in the following table show:
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