Proverbs: Volume 23 (Wisdom Commentary Series, 23)

Alice Ogden Bellis, Barbara E. Reid OP, Sarah Tanzer, Charles Redden Butler, Sindile Dlamini Dlamini, Desiré P. Grogan, Glenda F. Hodges, Kristy Hunt, Sehee Kim, NaShieka Knight, Eunyung Lim, Niciah Petrovic, Beverly A. Reddy, Alexandrea Rich, Lawrence W. Rodgers, Teresa L. Smallwood, Anne Troy, March M. Wood, Sam Perryman

ISBN 10: 0814681220 / ISBN 13: 9780814681220

Published by Liturgical Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Proverbs: Volume 23 (Wisdom Commentary Series, 23)
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814681220
• ISBN 13: 9780814681220
• Binding: Book
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.24W x 3.02H x 22.86D centimeters 15.24 centimeters width by 3.02 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 689 grams

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Synopsis

2019 Association of Catholic Publishers Book of the Year

In this volume, Alice Ogden Bellis considers the book of Proverbs as a structural whole, the sages having designed it in such a way as to make positive statements about women and to undercut the negative ones. By grouping Proverbs together around common issues, the reader is called to consider the perennial moral questions of wealth and poverty, diligence and laziness, and integrity and corruption, as well as the relationship among these values. The result is much more complex and has greater depth than the random list of bromides that most of Proverbs is often thought to be. This volume opens up a multi-dimensional spiritual puzzle. 

About the Authors

Alice Ogden Bellis is an ordained minister and professor of Hebrew Bible at Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, D.C. Her books include Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes: Women’s Stories in the Hebrew Bible (Westminster/John Knox, 1994 & 2007), Science, Scripture, and Homosexuality,with Dr. Terry Hufford (Pilgrim Press, 2002; Wipf and Stock, 2011), and Jews and Christians and the Theology of Hebrew Scriptures (co-edited with Joel Kaminsky, (SBL Symposium Series; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, November 2000).

Barbara E. Reid, general editor of the Wisdom Commentary series, is a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the Carroll Stuhlmueller, CP Distinguished Professor of New Testament Studies, and president emerita of Catholic Theological Union (the first woman who held the position). She has been a member of the CTU faculty since 1988 and also served as vice president and academic dean from 2009 to 2018. She holds a PhD in biblical studies from The Catholic University of America and was president of the Catholic Biblical Association in 2014–2015. Her most recent publications are Luke 1–9 and Luke 10–24, co-authored with Shelly Matthews (WCS 43A, 43B; Liturgical Press, 2021); and At the Table of Holy Wisdom: Global Hungers and Feminist Biblical Interpretation (Paulist, 2023).