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The Student's Old Testament

PROVERBS AND DIDACTIC POEMS

THE STUDENT'S OLD TESTAMENT

LOGICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY

ARRANGED AND TRANSLATED

BY

CHARLES FOSTER KENT, PH.D., LITT.D.

WOOLSEY PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE IN YALE UNIVERSITY

ARRANGEMENT OF VOLUMES

I. Narratives of the Beginnings of Hebrew History. (Now Ready.) Introduction. The Beginnings of Human History. Traditional Ancestors of the Hebrews. Deliverance of the Hebrews from Egypt. Life of the Hebrews in the Wilderness and East of the Jordan. Conquest and Settlement of Canaan.

II. Historical and Biographical Narratives. (Now Ready.)

Introduction. The United Monarchy. History of Northern Israel. History of Judah. Re-establishment of the Jewish Community in Palestine. The Maccabean Struggle. Life of the Jews of the Dispersion.

III. Sermons, Epistles, and Apocalypses of Israel's Prophets. (Now Ready.)

Introduction. The Prophets of the Assyrian Period. Prophets of Judah's Decline. Prophets of the Babylonian Exile. Prophets of the Persian Period. Prophets of the Greek and Maccabean Periods.

IV. Israel's Laws and Legal Precedents. (Now Ready.)

Introduction. Constitutional Laws. Criminal Laws. Private Laws. Humanitarian Laws. Religious Laws. Ceremonial Laws. V. The Songs, Hymns, and Prayers of the Old Testament. (Now Ready.)

Introduction. Tribal and National Songs. Songs of Lamentation. Songs of Love and Marriage. The Kingly and Messianic Psalms. Hymns of Praise and Thanksgiving. Hymns of Adoration and Trust. Prayers. Reflective and Didactic Psalms.

VI. Proverbs and Didactic Poems. (Now Ready.)

Introduction. Practical and Ethical Observations and Precepts. Religious Proverbs. Gnomic Essays. Numerical Enigmas. Discussions of the Problem of Evil. Discussions Regarding the Value of Life and Its Wise Enjoyment. Poems Describing Wisdom.

B102c. O.T. English.

PROVERBS

AND DIDACTIC POEMS

BY

CHARLES FOSTER KENT, PH.D., LITT.D.
Woolsey Professor of Biblical Literature in Yale University

AND

MILLAR BURROWS, B.D., PH.D.

Assistant Professor of Biblical Literature and History of Religions
in Brown University

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Printed in the United States of America

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED

TO THE GOODLY FELLOWSHIP OF THE

NATIONAL COUNCIL ON RELIGION IN HIGHER EDUCATION TO WHICH IN HIS LAST YEARS PROFESSOR KENT

DEVOTED MUCH OF HIS ENERGY AND IN

WHICH HIS SPIRIT STILL LIVES

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