Full Description
2019 Association of Catholic Publishers Book of the Year
In this volume, Alice Ogden Bellis considers the book of Proverbs as a structural whole, the sages having designed it in such a way as to make positive statements about women and to undercut the negative ones. By grouping Proverbs together around common issues, the reader is called to consider the perennial moral questions of wealth and poverty, diligence and laziness, and integrity and corruption, as well as the relationship among these values. The result is much more complex and has greater depth than the random list of bromides that most of Proverbs is often thought to be. This volume opens up a multi-dimensional spiritual puzzle.
Contents
Contents
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Foreword "Tell It on the Mountain"—or, "And You Shall Tell Your Daughter [as Well]" Athalya Brenner-Idan
Editor's Introduction to Wisdom Commentary: "She Is a Breath of the Power of God" (Wis 7:25) Barbara E. Reid, OP
Author's Introduction
Part 1: Proverbs 1:1-9:18
Advice to Young Men about Women and Wisdom, Concluding with Wisdom's and Folly's Banquets
Part 2: Proverbs 10:1-22:16
Two Collections: One Marked by Antithetical Parallelism, the Other by Focus on the Royal Court
Part 3: Proverbs 22:17-29:27
International Wisdom and the Hezekian Collection
Part 4: Proverbs 30:1-31:9
Foreign Wisdom and Riddles
Part 5: Proverbs 31:10-31
Poem on the ??????? , the Strong Woman/Wife (Capable Wife)
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index of Scripture References and Other Ancient Writings
Index of Subjects
