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.

Preface List of Abbreviations List of Contributors 0. Introduction Katharine Dell and Will Kynes Part I: Proverbs in Dialogue with the Hebrew Bible 1. Wisdom is the Tree of Life: A Study of Proverbs 3:13-20 and Genesis 23 - 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, Germany 3. Wisdom Defined through Narrative and Intertextual Network: 1 Kings 1-11 and Proverbs - Will Kynes, Whitworth University, USA 4. Proverbs and Isaiah 139 - John Goldingay, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA 5. Rebuke, Complaint, Lament, and Praise: Reading Proverbs and Psalms Together - William P. Brown, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA 6. The Proverbial Rhetoric of Job 28 - Scott C. Jones, Covenant College, UK 7. Twice-Told Proverbs as Inner-Biblical Exegesis - Mark Sneed, Lubbock Christian University, USA 8. Didactic Intertextuality: Proverbial Wisdom as Illustrated in Ruth - Katharine Dell, University of Cambridge, UK 9. Erotic Wisdom for a More Independent Youth: Is There a Debate between Song of Songs and Proverbs? - Anselm C. Hagedorn, Universitt Osnabrck, Germany 10. Qohelet as a Reader of Proverbs - Markus Saur, Bonn University, Germany Proverbs in Dialogue with Texts Throughout History 11. Intertextuality between the Book of Ben Sira and the Book of Proverbs - Pancratius C. Beentjes, Tilburg University, the Netherlands 12. Aphorisms and Admonitions: The Reuse of Proverbs in 4QWiles of the Wicked Woman - William A. Tooman, University of St. Andrews, UK 13. Proverbs in Dialogue with the New Testament - Knut M. Heim, Denver Theological Seminary, USA 14. Proverbs 8:22 and the Arian Controversy - Susannah Ticciati, Kings College London, UK 15. Better X Than Y: Context and Meaning in Proverbs, Qohelet, and Midrashic Collections - Susan Niditch, Amherst College, USA 16. Proverbs and the Confucian Classics - Christopher D. Hancock, Oxford House, UK 17. Sex and Power(lessness) in Selected Northern Sotho and Yorb Proverbs: An Intertextual Reading of Proverbs 5-7 - Funlola Olojede, Stellenbosch University, South Africa and Madipoane J. Masenya, University of South Africa, South Africa Indexes