Anchor Yale Bible: Proverbs 10-31 (AYB)

by Michael V. Fox

Publisher:

Yale University Press

, 2009

Overview

This volume completes Bible scholar Michael V. Fox’s comprehensive commentary on the book of Proverbs in the Anchor Yale series. Fox 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 Proverbs 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.

Key Features

• Includes Textual Notes
• Contains multiple indexes

Contents

Top Highlights

“The book of Proverbs is devoted to cultivating wise men. Throughout it addresses men’s concerns (such as avoiding promiscuous women), and the wise people it describes are almost all men. Now it concludes by describing a wise woman, but this too is a man’s concern. The poem praises her capabilities in bringing income into the home, caring for her household, showing charity to the poor, speaking wisdom and kindness, and living in fear of God.” (Pages 889–890)

“It is the modest who possess real wisdom, and (as the contrast with the A-line indicates) they will enjoy the very blessing they do not demand: honor.” (Page 531)

“Agur takes the rhetorical pose of the most ignorant of men in order to exalt a different form of wisdom—the knowledge of God’s word—and also to promote the piety that comes from keen consciousness of human deficiencies.” (Page 861)

“The point is rather that the Woman of Strength is truly priceless: Money cannot buy her; she is off the scale of monetary value.” (Page 892)

“This advice is grounded in the principles of the preceding two proverbs: humans are limited and God is in control” (Page 610)

Product Details

• Title: Proverbs 10–31: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
• Author: Michael V. Fox
• Series: Anchor Yale Bible
• Volume: 18B
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Print Publication Date: 2009
• Logos Release Date: 2010
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Proverbs 10-31 › Commentaries
• Resource ID: LLS:ANCHOR20BPR
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-24T16:15:25Z

About Michael V. Fox

Michael V. Fox received his rabbinical ordination from Hebrew Union College. He received a Ph.D. in Bible, Semitics, and Egyptology from the Hebrew University. He is currently Halls-Bascom Professor of Hebrew at the University of Wisconsin.

The Jewish Publication Society of Americawas founded in Philadelphia in 1888 to provide the children of Jewish immigrants to America with books about their heritage in the language of the New World. As the oldest publisher of Jewish titles in the English language, the mission of JPS is to enhance Jewish culture by promoting the dissemination of religious and secular works of exceptional quality, in the United States and abroad, to all individuals and institutions interested in past and contemporary Jewish life.

Over the years JPS has issued a body of works for all tastes and needs. Its many titles include biographies, histories, art books, holiday anthologies, books for young readers, religious and philosophical studies, and translations of scholarly and popular classics. It is perhaps known best for its famous JPS Tanakh, the translation of the Hebrew Bible in English from the original Hebrew.