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Chapter 2 - Scholarly Evaluations of Proverbs

A Selective Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2024

Katharine J. Dell
Katharine J. Dell
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University of Cambridge
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This chapter looks at scholarly assessment of traditional issues in relation to Proverbs such as provenance, historical and cultural context and literary-critical history across the debates of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries leading into the twenty-first. Beginning in the nineteenth century when the term “wisdom literature” was coined, changing ideas regarding compositional issues, original social context, and authorship and the effect of key Egyptian parallels on those debates are all discussed.

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provenancehistorical contextcultural contextliterary-criticalwisdom literaturecompositionauthorshipEgyptian parallelssocial context
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The Theology of the Book of Proverbs , pp. 29 - 56
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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