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PROVERBS : BAKER COMMENTARY ON THE OLD TESTAMENT WISDOM AND PSALMS

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"[A] rather innovative emphasis of Longman in this commentary is his stress on the connection between wisdom and law and through that connection an important link with covenant and the covenant community. . . . Longman also refreshingly challenges recent arguments . . . about a structured arrangement to the sayings in Prov 10-31. . . . The introduction is very full and gives considerable space to an interesting listing of Egyptian and other parallels from the ancient Near East . . . to which Longman rightly attaches considerable importance as the background for this material, and to cross-reference with other Old Testament books. . . . The body of the commentary contains a fresh translation with footnotes containing translational notes. . . . This is a very thorough and thought-provoking commentary from an experienced scholar in the field. The scholarly and church audiences are both clearly addressed here in a very readable writing style."

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