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Dr. Whybray describes the ancient Near-Eastern tradition of producing collections of wisdom: instructions in the form of aphorisms and proverbs for educating the young on how to have a happy and successful life. Although Proverbs depends on the tradition of wisdom literature, according to Whybray, the book of Ecclesiastes modifies this tradition. The book contains three very different types of...

1 INTRODUCTION ECCLESIASTES IS AT ONCE a strange book and a ‘modern’ one, at once enigmatic and curiously familiar. Its strangeness is partly due to its unexpectedness: it keeps strange company. Coming to it towards the end of a course of Old Testament study dominated by the great corpora of the Pentateuch and the historical books on the one hand and the prophetical books on the other, the student finds himself in a world suddenly grown quiet: the world of the scholar in his study or of the lecturer
Pages 11–12
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