Proverbs Resources
Websites
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This excellent resource provides almost every translation of the Bible you could possibly desire.
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This site began as an artist's project to depict the Bible in Lego form—wild stuff. Proverbs isn't covered to a particularly great degree, but it is mentioned.
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This presents a pretty succinct overview of Proverbs from a contemporary Jewish viewpoint.
Historical Documents
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Check it out: This ancient Egyptian collection of proverbs and wisdom had a big influence on the Biblical Book of Proverbs. The authors even, apparently, used some of its sayings.
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Henry authored one of the classic, main-line Protestant Bible commentaries. This is his take on Proverbs.
Video
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Scholar Wolfgang Mieder discusses the way that Martin Luther King Jr. used proverbs (but not just the Biblical kind) in his civil rights speeches.
Audio
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Listen up. This contemporary American composer set Proverbs in a classical music setting in this work for chorus and orchestra.
Images
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The Tree of Life is found throughout the Bible—including in Proverbs, where it's a metaphor for any good, life-saving attributes or for Wisdom itself. Here's Disney World's visual representation.
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Okay, so technically this doesn't have that much to do with Biblical proverbs—but hey: it's an old painting and it deals with proverbs—even if we're talking about the Dutch rather than the Hebrew variety.
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This Russian icon depicts the king in a fairly wise-looking mode.
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Wisdom and Truth are both female—as Wisdom is in Proverbs—as they aid History in recording the deeds of human beings.