the book of proverbs comes from the christian old testament.
the book of proverbs comes from the christian old testament.
where does the book of proverbs come from?
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the book of proverbs (hebrew: מִשְלֵי, "míshlê (shlomoh)", "proverbs (of solomon)") is the second book of the third section (called writings) of the hebrew bible and a book of the christian old testament. when translated into greek and latin, the title took on different forms: in the greek septuagint (lxx) it became παροιμίαι "paroimiai" ("proverbs"); in the latin vulgate the title was "proverbia", from which the english name is derived.
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however, a number of scholars argue that such claims are not valid. they have used a variety of arguments. grauberg argues that since many proverbs are so widely circulated they are reflections of broad human experience, not any one culture's unique viewpoint. related to this line of argument, from a collection of 199 american proverbs, jente showed that only 10 were coined in the usa, so that most of these proverbs would not reflect uniquely american values. giving another line of reasoning that proverbs should not be trusted as a simplistic guide to cultural values, mieder once observed "proverbs come and go, that is, antiquated proverbs with messages and images we no longer relate to are dropped from our proverb repertoire, while new proverbs are created to reflect the mores and values of our time", so old proverbs still in circulation might reflect past values of a culture more than its current values. also, within any language's proverb repertoire, there may be "counter proverbs", proverbs that contradict each other on the surface (see section above). when examining such counter proverbs, it is difficult to discern an underlying cultural value. with so many barriers to a simple calculation of values directly from proverbs, some feel "one cannot draw conclusions about values of speakers simply from the texts of proverbs".
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