vol. 38, Issue #4

Online Journal Article:THE DOCTRINE OF THE “TWO WAYS” IN PROVERBS DANIEL P. BRICKER* JETS 38/4 (December 1995) 501–517

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THE DOCTRINE OF THE “TWO WAYS” IN PROVERBS
DANIEL P. BRICKER*
JETS 38/4 (December 1995) 501–517

Excerpt:
In reading the book of Proverbs it becomes apparent that people and
actions are often presented in polar extremes. Some of the prominent
polarities are the wise and the foolish, the righteous and the wicked, and actions
that lead to honor or shame. This may leave modern readers with the
impression that individual proverbs fail to present real situations because
the situations in view seem too simplistic. Some, taking an extreme view,
see Proverbs as “generally mediocre as literature, tedious as ethics, banal
as religion.” This unmerited scorn may be due to a pervasive unpopularity
of the proverb in modern culture, along with centuries of familiarity and
repetition that have rendered them trite by modern standards, as well as
the apparent lack of topical organization the book of Proverbs .... --from the first page of the article