Author Description

Wisdom is the tree of life: a study of Proverbs 3:13-20 and Genesis 2-3 / Christine Yoder -- "Teach them diligently to your son!": the Book of Proverbs and Deuteronomy / Bernd Schipper -- Wisdom defined through narrative and intertextual network: 1 Kings 1-11 and Proverbs / Will Kynes -- Proverbs and Isaiah 1-39 / John Goldingay -- Rebuke, complaint, lament, and praise: reading Proverbs and Psalms together / William Brown -- The proverbial rhetoric of Job 28 / Scott Jones -- Twice-told Proverbs as inner-biblical exegesis / Mark Sneed -- Didactic intertextuality: proverbial wisdom as illustrated in Ruth / Katharine Dell -- Erotic wisdom for a more independent youth: is there a debate between Song of Songs and Proverbs? / Anselm Hagedorn -- Qohelet as a reader of Proverbs / Markus Saur -- Intertextuality between the Book of Ben Sira and the Book of Proverbs / P.C. Beentjes -- Aphorisms and admonitions: the reuse of proverbs in 4QWiles of the wicked woman / William Tooman -- Proverbs in dialogue with the New Testament / Knut Heim -- Proverbs 8:22 and the Arian controversy / Susannah Ticciati -- "Better X than Y": context and meaning in Proverbs, Qohelet, and Midrashic collections / Susan Niditch -- Proverbs and the Confucian classics / Christopher Hancock -- Sex and power(lessness) in selected Northern Sotho and Yorùbá Proverbs: an intertextual reading of Proverbs 5-7 / Funlola Olojede and Madipoane J. Masenya.