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16 - Teaching Complex Ethical Thinking with Proverbs

from Part IV - Wisdom/Poetic Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2021

By
Anne W. Stewart
Edited by
C. L. Crouch
C. L. Crouch
Affiliation:
Fuller Theological Seminary, California
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Summary

From its opening words, the book of Proverbs suggests that ethical reflection is a complex task, requiring sophisticated faculties of discernment. It demands the ability to sift through competing sources of wisdom. Proverbs calls upon neophyte students and experienced sages alike to test their learning constantly in wisdom’s laboratory of the world. Calibrating one’s moral sensitivities is a lifelong pursuit that requires savvy and discipline, and the book of Proverbs in both its form and its function seeks to impart such skill.

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The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible and Ethics , pp. 241 - 256
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Brown, W. P. “The Pedagogy of Proverbs 10:1–31:9.” Pages 150–82 in Character and Scripture: Moral Formation, Community, and Biblical Interpretation. Edited by Brown, W. P.. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.Google Scholar
Brown, W. P. Wisdom’s Wonder: Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible’s Wisdom Literature. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014.Google Scholar
Carr, D. M. Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Davis, E. F. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs. Westminster Bible Commentary. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000.Google Scholar
Fox, M. V. Proverbs 1–9: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Anchor Bible 18A. New York: Doubleday, 2000.Google Scholar
Fox, M. V. Proverbs 10–31: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Anchor Bible 18B. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Heim, K. M. Poetic Imagination in Proverbs: Variant Repetitions and the Nature of Poetry. BBRSup 4. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2013.Google Scholar
Hildebrandt, T. “Proverbs 22:6a: Train Up a Child?” Grace Theological Journal 11 (1988): 3–19.Google Scholar
Newsom, C. A. “Woman and the Discourse of Patriarchal Wisdom: A Study of Proverbs 1–9.” Pages 142–60 in Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel. Edited by Day, P.. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1989.Google Scholar
O’Connor, K. M. The Wisdom Literature. Message of Biblical Spirituality 5. Collegeville: Liturgical, 1988.Google Scholar
Stewart, A. W. Poetic Ethics in Proverbs: Wisdom Literature and the Shaping of the Moral Self. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.Google Scholar
Stewart, A. W. “Wisdom’s Imagination: Moral Reasoning and the Book of Proverbs” JSOT 40 (2016): 351–72.Google Scholar
Yoder, C. R. “Forming ‘Fearers of Yahweh’: Repetition and Contradiction as Pedagogy in Proverbs.” Pages 167–83 in Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients. Edited by Troxel, R., Friebel, K. G., and Magary, D. R.. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2005.Google Scholar

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