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Books about Numerical Sayings in the Old Testament

Preliminary material /W. M. w. Roth -- Introduction /W. M. W. Roth -- Chapter One: The Structure of the Numerical Saying /W. M. w. Roth -- Chapter Two: Narrative Numerical Sayings /W. M. w. Roth -- Chapter Three: Reflective Numerical Sayings /W. M. w. Roth -- Chapter Four: Hortative Numerical

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

This book is an original contribution to the ongoing debate concerning the social background and the transmission-history of the Book of Proverbs. It is the first detailed comparative study of biblical proverbs and Arabic proverbs and the wisdom sayings of Prophet Muḥammad. All Arabic material appears in transliteration and translation.

This book, the first of a series, describes the course of modern interpretation of the book of Proverbs. The topics covered include origins, background and dating, literary aspects and theological ideas. More than 350 books and articles are discussed.