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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...

Understanding the literary genre of a text is essential to properly interpret it. Each genre contains distinctive characteristics that require unique interpretative approaches.29 The exact nature and setting of the wisdom literature of the Old Testament is debated. It is often said to be characterized by features such as being humanistic in orientation, international in scope, non-historical in emphasis, eudaemonistic in practice, concerned with
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