Reading Proverbs Intertextually

Katharine J. Dell is Reader in Old Testament at the University of Cambridge, UK. Will Kynes is Assistant Professor of Theology at Whitworth University, USA.

• PrefaceList of AbbreviationsList of Contributors0. IntroductionKatharine Dell and Will KynesPart I: Proverbs in Dialogue with the Hebrew Bible1. Wisdom is the Tree of Life: A Study of Proverbs 3:13-20 and Genesis 2–3 - Christine Roy Yoder, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA 2. “Teach them diligently to your son!”: The Book of Proverbs and Deuteronomy - Bernd U. Schipper – Humboldt University, Germany3. Wisdom Defined through Narrative and Intertextual Network: 1 Kings 1-11 and Proverbs - Will Kynes, Whitworth University, USA4. Proverbs and Isaiah 1–39 - John Goldingay, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA5. Rebuke, Complaint, Lament, and Praise: Reading Proverbs and Psalms Together - William P. Brown, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA6. The Proverbial Rhetoric of Job 28 - Scott C. Jones, Covenant College, UK7. Twice-Told Proverbs as Inner-Biblical Exegesis - Mark Sneed, Lubbock Christian University, USA8. Didactic Intertextuality: Proverbial Wisdom as Illustrated in Ruth - Katharine Dell, University of Cambridge, UK9. Erotic Wisdom for a More Independent Youth: Is There a Debate between Song of Songs and Proverbs? - Anselm C. Hagedorn, Universität Osnabrück, Germany10. Qohelet as a Reader of Proverbs - Markus Saur, Bonn University, GermanyProverbs in Dialogue with Texts Throughout History11. Intertextuality between the Book of Ben Sira and the Book of Proverbs - Pancratius C. Beentjes, Tilburg University, the Netherlands12. Aphorisms and Admonitions: The Reuse of Proverbs in 4QWiles of the Wicked Woman - William A. Tooman, University of St. Andrews, UK13. Proverbs in Dialogue with the New Testament - Knut M. Heim, Denver Theological Seminary, USA14. Proverbs 8:22 and the Arian Controversy - Susannah Ticciati, Kings College London, UK15. “Better X Than Y”: Context and Meaning in Proverbs, Qohelet, and Midrashic Collections - Susan Niditch, Amherst College, USA16. Proverbs and the Confucian Classics - Christopher D. Hancock, Oxford House, UK17. Sex and Power(lessness) in Selected Northern Sotho and Yorùbá Proverbs: An Intertextual Reading of Proverbs 5-7 - Funlola Olojede, Stellenbosch University, South Africa and Madipoane J. Masenya, University of South Africa, South AfricaIndexes