Proverbs: Old Testament Library [OTL] (Paperback)
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Proverbs: Old Testament Library [OTL] (Paperback)   -     By: Richard J. Clifford

Proverbs: Old Testament Library [OTL] (Paperback)

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Two sentences from the great eighteenth-century English aphorist Samuel Johnson can serve as a motto to Proverbs and to this commentary. "Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed." The book of Proverbs does not primarily provide information; its instructions are remarkably empty of "content" and its maxims, when rephrased, are often trite. Rather, it informs by giving its readers a perspective. To quote Johnson on the achievement of Alexander Pope: "New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new." Proverbs is about vision and action. From the Preface

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Title: Proverbs: Old Testament Library [OTL] (Paperback)
By: Richard J. Clifford
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 304
Vendor: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 1999
Dimensions: 9.16 X 6.46 X 0.80 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 1 ounce
ISBN: 0664228534
ISBN-13: 9780664228538
Series: Old Testament Library
Stock No: WW228534

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Through translation, technical notes, and insightful commentary, Richard Clifford sheds new understanding on Proverbs. By focusing on the rhetoric of Proverbs, Clifford demonstrates how the book fosters a lifelong search for wisdom, and enables readers to see how the instructions and sayings are concerned with contemporary issues.

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Richard J. Clifford, S.J. is Visiting Professor of Old Testament at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. A former President of Weston Jesuit School of Theology, he was Founding Dean of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry from 2008-2010. He has previously served as General Editor of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly and is a past President of the Catholic Biblical Association.

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