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Short Sentences Long Remembered: A Guided Study of Proverbs and Other Wisdom Literature is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is the last of a six-volume series called Reading the Bible as Literature. In this series, the author not only explores the intersection of the Bible and literature, but he also shows pastors, students, and teachers of the Bible the beautiful craftsmanship of Proverbs and wisdom literature and how to interpret them correctly. Dr. Ryken goes one step further than merely explaining the genre...

class of aristocratic young people or a street teacher addressing the masses, in both cases we should not picture the teacher as composing his own material on the spot. A teacher today teaches from a textbook. The wisdom books of the Bible are the equivalent of a textbook. So who composed the wisdom books? They were authors who flaunted their literary skill in virtually every line that they composed. As later chapters in this guide explore the literary forms of wisdom literature, we will find it
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