The Message of Proverbs

Wisdom For Life

David Atkinson (Author)

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Inter-Varsity Press
20 April 2023

Bible readings, selections & meditations; Christian ministry & pastoral activity

Series: The Bible Speaks Today Old Testament

Despite the centuries which separate us from the authors of these proverbs, the everyday realities of human existence remain: making friends, coping with sexuality, handling money, responding to poverty, making a living, learning through loss, muddling through difficulties, facing death.

David Atkinson shows how Proverbs addresses all these issues. Wisdom, he argues, is about helping to cope; about seeing the world in a fresh way to five new resources for living; about working out what living for God means in the very ordinariness of daily life.

These sayings, he explains, bring such concerns to life in vivid, imaginative, often humorous pictures, linking the cosmic and the homely. The ancient book puts a mirror up to our behaviour, and asks: 'Are you like this? Is there not a better way to live?'

The Bible Speaks Today series covers every book of the Old and New Testaments, as well as Bible themes that run through the whole of Scripture. These revised editions are updated with contemporary language and Bible translations to help you to follow and to teach the Bible in today’s world.

By: David Atkinson (Author)
Imprint: Inter-Varsity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781789744422
ISBN 10: 1789744423
Series: The Bible Speaks Today Old Testament
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 20 April 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

General preface ix Author's preface xi Select bibliography xiv The wisdom of God 1 1. Wisdom's portrait (1:1 - 9:18) 17 2. Wisdom's instructors and Wisdom's detractors (1:1 - 9:18) 45 3. Wisdom's methods 69 4. Wisdom's values: foundations (10:1 - 22:16) 86 5. Wisdom's values: the practical dimension (10:1 - 22:16) 108 6. Wisdom's values: the words of the wise (22:17 - 31:31) 132 Conclusion: godliness in working clothes 146

David Atkinson is an Honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Southwark, and was formerly Suffragan Bishop of Thetford in the Diocese of Norwich. As well as The Message of Job he has written the Bible Speaks Today commentaries on Genesis 1–11, Ruth and Proverbs.