Does Proverbs Promise Too Much?
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Introduction This essay, "Does the Book of Proverbs Promise Too Much?" is poignantly fitting in this memorial volume to Professor Hasel, who exemplified both in his life and in his scholarship the highest Christian ideals. The untimely death of one of the finest Old Testament scholars makes the Book of Proverbs' heavenly promises seem detached from earth's reality. Evangelicals confess the Book of Proverbs' inspiration and intellectually assent to its authority, but emotionally many cannot take the book seriously because its promises seem removed from the harsh reality of their experience. Prov. 3:l-12 brings the problem into sharp focus. I will divide this essay into four parts: (I) translation; (2) poetics; (3) theological reflection on the problem, "does it promise too much," and finally (4) exposition of 3 5 .
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