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This volume on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, the book of Wisdom, and Sirach offers unparalleled excellence in contemporary critical scholarship. The full texts and critical notes of the NIV and NRSV are presented in parallel columns for quick reference followed by exegetical commentary informed by linguistic, text-critical, historical-critical, literary, social-scientific, and theological methods. One general article and book-length detailed interpretations are offered by the following contributors: Raymond C. Van Leeuwen (Proverbs), W.Sibley Towner (Ecclesiastes), Renita J. Weems (Song of Songs), Michael Kolarcik (Book of Wisdom), James L. Crenshaw (Book of Sirach).
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