To Answer or Not Answer? Reading Text, Culture, and Soul with Wisdom

Tremper Longman III

Article Type: Article

Publication Date: 8/12/2021

Paired Article (Face to Face): To Answer or Not Answer? Reading Text, Culture, and Soul with Wisdom

Issue: Wisdom (Vol. 41, No 4, Summer, 2021)

The wisdom in the book of Proverbs seems sometimes to contradict itself, with opposite pieces of advice sometimes even in back-to-back couplets. But the wisdom in Proverbs is more complicated than simple moral aphorisms that can be easily applied at all times. Rather, this wisdom relies on a sophisticated reading of nuance and context, and of the people involved.

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