Proverbs, Volume 22 (22) (Word Biblical Commentary)

✍ Scribed by Roland E. Murphy, Bruce M. Metzger (editor), David Allen Hubbard (editor), Glenn W. Barker (editor)

• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 383
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources for the professional theologian and instructor, the seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base of biblical scholarship.

Overview of Commentary Organization

• Introduction—covers issues pertaining to the whole book, including context, date, authorship, composition, interpretive issues, purpose, and theology.
• Each section of the commentary includes:
• Pericope Bibliography—a helpful resource containing the most important works that pertain to each particular pericope.
• Translation—the author’s own translation of the biblical text, reflecting the end result of exegesis and attending to Hebrew and Greek idiomatic usage of words, phrases, and tenses, yet in reasonably good English.
• Notes—the author’s notes to the translation that address any textual variants, grammatical forms, syntactical constructions, basic meanings of words, and problems of translation.
• Form/Structure/Setting—a discussion of redaction, genre, sources, and tradition as they concern the origin of the pericope, its canonical form, and its relation to the biblical and extra-biblical contexts in order to illuminate the structure and character of the pericope. Rhetorical or compositional features important to understanding the passage are also introduced here.
• Comment—verse-by-verse interpretation of the text and dialogue with other interpreters, engaging with current opinion and scholarly research.
• Explanation—brings together all the results of the discussion in previous sections to expose the meaning and intention of the text at several levels: (1) within the context of the book itself; (2) its meaning in the OT or NT; (3) its place in the entire canon; (4) theological relevance to broader OT or NT issues.
  • General Bibliography—occurring at the end of each volume, this extensive bibliographycontains all sources used anywhere in the commentary.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Author’s Preface
Editorial Preface
Abbreviations
Main Bibliography
Introduction
Authorship and Date
Literary Forms
Limitations of Proverbial Sayings
Text and Versions
Egyptian and Mesopotamian Influence
History of Interpretation
The Shape of the Commentary
Translation of Proverbs 1:1–31:31
Text and Commentary
Title and Purpose
Proverbs 1:1–7
Introductory Instructions (1:8–9:18)
Proverbs 1:8–33
Proverbs 2:1–22
Proverbs 3:1–35
Proverbs 4:1–27
Proverbs 5:1–23
Proverbs 6:1–35
Proverbs 7:1–27
Proverbs 8:1–36
Proverbs 9:1–18
The Proverbs of Solomon (10:1–22:16)
Proverbs 10:1–32
Proverbs 11:1–31
Proverbs 12:1–28
Proverbs 13:1–25
Proverbs 14:1–35
Proverbs 15:1–33
Proverbs 16:1–33
Proverbs 17:1–28
Proverbs 18:1–24
Proverbs 19:1–29
Proverbs 20:1–30
Proverbs 21:1–31
Proverbs 22:1–16
The Words of the Wise (22:17–24:22)
Proverbs 22:17–29
Proverbs 23:1–35
Proverbs 24:1–22
The Words of the Wise
Proverbs 24:23–34
The Proverbs of Solomon (25:1–29:27)
Proverbs 25:1–28
Proverbs 26:1–28
Proverbs 27:1–27
Proverbs 28:1–28
Proverbs 29:1–27
The Words of Agur
Proverbs 30:1–14
Numerical Sayings
Proverbs 30:15–33
The Words of Lemuel
Proverbs 31:1–9
The Ideal Woman
Proverbs 31:10–31
Excursuses
Excursus On Translating Proverbs
Excursus On Fear of the Lord
Excursus On Speech
Excursus On Wealth and Poverty
Excursus On Retribution
Excursus On Theology
Excursus On Woman Wisdom and Woman Folly
Excursus On International Wisdom
Excursus On the Book of Proverbs and Amenemope
Indexes
Index of Authors Cited
Index of Biblical and Other Ancient Texts
A Select Index of Principal Subjects