Proverbs : New Approach

by William McKane

Paper Book, 1970

Status

Available

Call number

IBMC Library - BS 1465.3 M25 - Shlvd w/ Pastoral Care

Publication

Philadelphia, Westminster Press

ISBN

0664208878 / 9780664208875

Description

This is a major work and very much a scholar's work for scholars; I would not be surprised if it did not achieve international standing on publication. It is more than a commentary, it is a thorough exploration of the Proverb and Wisdom literature in, and around, the Bible, with a fascinating investigation of this kind of writing in Egyptian, and Babylonian and Assyrian sources' (The Scotsman). The commentary is detailed, comprehensive, and will fill a gap on many shelves .. any student and preacher of the OT and of the Bible simply cannot afford to be without it. Dr McKane is to be congratulated upon an excellent book--scholarly, original and most attractive to read' (G. Henton Davies in the Baptist Times).

Local notes

CONTENTS:
pt. 1. International wisdom -- The Egyptian instruction -- The Babylonian-Assyrian instruction -- Babylonian and Assyrian proverbs -- pt. 2. The book of Proverbs -- Translation -- The instruction genre in the book of Proverbs -- The sentence literature in the book of Proverbs -- Poems and numerical sayings.
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