Contradiction in the Book of Proverbs: The Deep Waters of Counsel (Society for Old Testament Study) - Hardcover

Hatton, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754663043 ISBN 13: 9780754663041

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Despite the welcome revival of scholarly interest in Biblical Wisdom, the Book of Proverbs remains neglected. It continues to be seen as a disorganised repository of traditional banalities, while Job and Qohelet are viewed as more exciting texts, in revolt against Proverbs' conventional wisdom. Contradiction in the Book of Proverbs argues that this misleading consensus owes more to scholarly presuppositions than to the content of Proverbs; it sees Proverbs as a challenging work, one that aims to provoke a critical appropriation of wisdom and in which diverse sources have been skilfully brought together by a creative final editor to form a complex unity. Many divergences from the Hebrew in the Greek witness to the translator's discomfort with his spikey, provocative original. Peter Hatton challenges many existing scholarly assumptions and calls for a re-evaluation of the role and significance of Proverbs in relation to the other biblical wisdom books and the whole canon.

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About the Author

Peter Hatton is a Minister in the UK Methodist Church.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754663043
• ISBN 13: 9780754663041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 214