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Leo G. Perdue

Auteur de Proverbs

19+ oeuvres 723 utilisateurs 1 Critiques 1 Favoris

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Leo G. Perdue, Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Forth Worth, Texas, is an international authority on wisdom literature and the author of numerous books, including Proverbs in the Interpretation commentary series (WJK).

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Œuvres de Leo G. Perdue

Proverbs (2000) 184 exemplaires
The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible (2001) — Directeur de publication — 59 exemplaires
Wisdom in Revolt (JSOT supplement) (1991) 16 exemplaires

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Date de naissance
1946-10-07
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A commentary on the book of Proverbs in the liberal scholarship "tradition." The author spends some time discussing the ancient Near Eastern wisdom traditions. The book follows the paradigm of the Interpretation series, breaking down each "collection" of proverbs-- believed time and place, literary analysis, conclusion, and theology.

The quality and depth of the exegesis is extremely haphazard-- some parts of the proverbs collection are passed over relatively quickly while other portions are discussed in greater depth, and there does not seem to be much logic behind it. Explanations that take context and culture into account, providing historical detail, have value.

Overall, however, the book suffers from the presumption that the majority of Proverbs as we know it derives from the Persian period, and the evidence for such a view is rather scanty. It would have been better to avoid postulating regarding things that cannot be known and to have focused on more that can be fleshed out regarding the proverbs and their role in Israelite society.
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