Instruction and imagery in Proverbs 1-9 /

Weeks, Stuart.

Instruction and imagery in Proverbs 1-9 / Stuart Weeks. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007. - xii, 260 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-245) and index.

Introduction -- The instruction in the ancient Near East -- Proverbs 1-9 as an instruction -- Themes and imagery in Proverbs 1-9 -- Wisdom and the character of instruction -- The 'foreign woman' and the path imagery -- The significance of Proverbs 1-9 -- Annotated translation.

9780199291540 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0199291543 (hbk. : alk. paper)


Bible.--O.T.--Proverbs I-IX--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

BS1465.52 / .W44 2007

223.706