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  • Chapter 4 - The Theology of the Oldest Proverbial Material

  • Katharine J. Dell, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The Theology of the Book of Proverbs
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    31 August 2023, pp 84-102

  • Summary

    This chapter ranges together the oldest proverbial material – i.e. the previously oral maxims that form the bedrock of the ‘proverb’ genre. These are to be found in the main sayings collection in 10:1-22:16, also in 24:23-34 and in the many variants in 25-9 and in the miscellany of animal sayings and lists in Proverbs 30:7-33. The role of all these sections in ethical guidance, itself not monochrome but characterized by difference and contradiction, is explored.