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Roland Murphy approaches Proverbs as “a collection of collections.” The long poems of chapters 1–9 introduce the collections of short sayings in chapters 10-31. With this division Murphy accepts “the unproven but likely assumption” that during the postexilic period chapters 1-9 set the tone for the mostly pre-exilic collections in chapters 10–31. Murphy cautions his readers to consider the...

of D. Pardee concentrates on literary features, such as parallelism and chiasmus, etc., he does indicate a division based on a thematic basis (Parallelism, 70–71). There is a basic instruction on how a son may acquire wisdom (Vv 1–11); a statement of the effects of wisdom (Vv 12–19), and a conclusion in form of promise and warning. Further subdivisions follow, but the whole chapter is treated as a unit. Whybray’s hypothesis of ten instructions leads to a dislocation in chap. 2; thus he discerns a
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