OT348 Book Study: Proverbs
Overview
Tremper Longman opens up the book of Proverbs with this comprehensive study. Longman gives a big picture view of Proverbs, discussing critical ANE background texts, the nature of wisdom, the identification of Woman Wisdom, how to read proverbs Christologically, and the different types of proverbs and teaching found in the book. He includes a helpful comparison with two other Old Testament Wisdom books, Job and Ecclesiastes.
Top Highlights
“Wisdom, on the first level, is a kind of practical category, a skill of living.” (source)
“But wisdom is basically navigating life, knowing how to avoid the pitfalls of life and how to maximize the benefits of life in these ways. It’s very, very similar to what we call, today, ‘emotional intelligence.’” (source)
“woman Wisdom represents the Lord Himself. So to dine with woman Wisdom is to enter into a relationship with the Lord.” (source)
“It’s not the type of fear that makes one run away, but I still think ‘fear of the Lord’ is about as good as we can do, shall we say, in terms of communicating the fact that our relationship with the Lord should acknowledge the fact that He is, after all, our creator and sustainer, the one who is so much greater than we are.” (source)
“We’re going to see that wisdom, on the one hand, is a very practical concept teaching us how to live our life, but it’s much deeper than that. It also has an ethical dimension and a theological foundation.” (source)
- Title: OT348 Book Study: Proverbs
- Author: Tremper Longman III
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Bible. O.T. Proverbs › Commentaries; Bible. O.T. Proverbs › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Education › Bible. O.T. Proverbs--Commentaries; Education › Bible. O.T. Proverbs--Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Resource ID: LLS:OT348LONGMAN
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-04T00:32:18Z
Tremper Longman III serves as Distinguished Scholar and Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Westmont College. He has written over 35 books, including commentaries on Genesis, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Daniel, Nahum, and Revelation. His books have been translated into 18 different languages. In addition, as a Hebrew scholar, he is one of the main translators of the popular New Living Translation, and has served as a consultant on other popular Bible translations, including The Message, the New Century Version, the Christian Standard Bible, and the Common Bible. He has also edited and contributed to a number of study Bibles and Bible dictionaries, most recently The Baker Illustrated Bible Dictionary.
He earned his BA from Ohio Wesleyan University, his MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary, and both his MPhil and PhD from Yale University. Dr. Longman and his wife, Alice, have three sons and eight grandchildren.