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Judges & Ruth (Paperback, New)
Victor Harold Matthews; Edited by Ben Witherington, Bill T Arnold, James D.G. Dunn, Michael V. Fox, …
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Bringing to life the world portrayed in the stories in Judges and Ruth, this commentary offers readers an "insider" perspective on the narratives. After establishing a cultural and literary context, Victor Matthews analyzes each episode separately and as a whole.
Widely praised as a seminal contribution to the study of the Old
Testament when it first appeared, Michael V. Fox's Character and
Ideology in the Book of Esther is now available in a second
edition, complete with an up-to-date critical review of recent
Esther scholarship. Fox's commentary, based on his own translation
of the Hebrew text, captures the meaning and artistry of Esther's
inspiring story. After laying out the background information
essential for properly reading Esther, Fox offers commentary on the
text that clearly unpacks its message and relevance. Fox also looks
in depth at each character in the story of Esther, showing how they
were carefully shaped by the book's author to teach readers a new
view of how to live as Jews in foreign lands.
Available once more, this is a comprehensive, comparative literary
philological examination of two enduring bodies of love poetry from
the ancient Near East.
Pervaded as it is with pessimism, paradox, and a multitude of
contradictions, Ecclesiastes has long been one of the most
difficult books of the Bible to understand. As this study
demonstrates, however, it is precisely these contradictions that
make Ecclesiastes so meaningful and so powerfully relevant to life
in the world. By looking carefully at the language and thought of
Ecclesiastes, as well as at its uses of contradictions in probing
the meaning of life, Fox confronts the problems that have
confounded interpretation of this biblical book. He shows that by
using contradiction to tear down holistic claims of meaning and
purpose in the world and rebuilding meaning in a local, restricted
sense instead, the author of Ecclesiastes shapes a bold, honest-and
ultimately uplifting-vision of life. Based on solid scholarly
insight yet readable by all, Fox's work provides some of the best
commentary available on this challenging section of Scripture.
This volume completes Bible scholar Michael V. Fox's comprehensive
commentary on the book of Proverbs. As in his previous volume on
the early chapters of Proverbs, the author here translates and
explains in accessible language the meaning and literary qualities
of the sayings and poems that comprise the final chapters. He gives
special attention to comparable sayings in other wisdom books,
particularly from Egypt, and makes extensive use of medieval Hebrew
commentaries, which have received scant attention in previous
Proverb commentaries. In separate sections set in smaller type, the
author addresses technical issues of text and language for
interested scholars. The author's essays at the end of the
commentary view the book of Proverbs in its entirety and
investigate its ideas of wisdom, ethics, revelation, and knowledge.
Out of Proverbs' great variety of sayings from different times, Fox
shows, there emerges a unified vision of life, its obligations, and
its potentials.
This collection of studies had its origin in the Burdick-Vary
Symposium of 1986, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The
symposium, sponsored jointly by the Institute for Research in the
Humanities and the Hebrew Department of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, focused on the topic of the social role of
temples in society. Participants presented the role of the temple
in Sumer, Japan, the Far East, the Near East, Europe, and
Meso-America. Together they sought to determine whether the temple
as an institution was a single such entity, meeting fundamental
human needs in similar ways throughout history, or whether the
temples of various cultures are similar only in the fact that
English uses the same word to refer to them.
As we enter the new millennium, the search for wisdom is on, with
no better place to look than the book of Proverbs. It transcends
the ages with timeless wisdom:
-- "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge".
-- "For the Lord grants wisdom, at his behest come knowledge and
good sense".
-- "Happy the man who has found wisdom, the man who obtains good
sense. For better her profit than the profit of silver, her yield
than that of fine gold. More precious is she than rubies; no
valuables can match her".
-- "Attend, my son, and take my words, that the years of your life
may increase".
In "Proverbs 1-9", Bible scholar Michael V. Fox translates and
explains the meaning of the first nine chapters of this profound
book. A thorough introduction to Proverb, highlighted by an
examination of the Egyptian wisdom tradition, as well as a survey
of ancient Near Eastern wisdom literature, provide the basis of
detailed and insightful comments. In addition to the translation
and commentary proper, Fox includes several extended thematic
essays and textual notes on Proverbs 1-9, covering such themes as
the origins of personified wisdom, what wisdom is, and where wisdom
can be found. This substantive book, the first of a two-volume set,
at last accords Proverbs the depth of study it deserves, and will
assure it a life in print at least as long as the original 1965
Anchor Bible Commentary, Proverbs/Ecclesiastes.
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