I know nothing about the Book of Proverbs, except that—Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! Glory Be! Hosanna in the Highest!—it is not the Book of Psalms. Based on the name “Proverbs,” I suspect it’s going ...

The Hebrew Bible’s Book of Proverbs, sandwiched between the Psalms and Job, elucidates moral values and proper conduct for a life of wisdom and justice. Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, author of The Book of ...

You know more of the Bible than you think you do, I often remark to my students. Phrases such as “As a dog returns to its own vomit” or “spare the rod and spoil the child” are well-known in English as ...

In Rob Stites updated edition of Organized Proverbs: Contrasts in Wisdom from the Holy Bible, readers are invited to apply the wisdom from the book of Proverbs, organized by topic, to their own ...

Proverbs serves as a formal collection of wisdom in the Hebrew Bible. In tracing the historical composition of this book, we can see the beautiful evolution of Hebrew wisdom. The book begins with what ...

Proverbs belongs to the so-called wisdom literature of the Old Testament and cannot be fully understood without some knowledge of this literary genre. In some measure wisdom is found amongst all ...

I was reading the Bible in the book of Proverbs recently and in the very first chapter there were warnings about hanging out ...