Download Proverbs 10-31

Proverbs 10-31. Anchor Bible 18B. By Michael V. Fox (Yale University Press, $60). This is the
second volume of F.’s magisterial commentary on Proverbs and shows the same focus on
philology and relationships with other biblical and Ancient Near Eastern wisdom that also
characterized the first volume, In addition to the commentary itself, there are introductory essays
on reading Proverbs as a collection, reading an ancient proverb itself, and the dating and social
setting or the Proverb collection, and concluding essays on the growth of wisdom, ethics,
revelation, and knowledge. There are eighty-nine pages of text-critical notes and sixty-three
pages of bibliography. F. dates the proverbs in chapters 10-31 to the time of the monarchy and
shows that they come from a royalist perspective. The king provides social stability, justice, and
peace, and the king is assumed to be inherently just, unless contaminated by the dross of
unworthy servants. Ralph W. Klein