Ryan O’Dowd

Wisdom in the World

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“As recent centuries of biblical study have opened new insights into the history and literature of Proverbs 8, the theological meaning ‘in front of the text’ has been regarded as unnecessary. Drawing skillfully on Hans Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur, Brian Hughes demonstrates that theological reading is not simply something some of us add to our ‘factual’ interpretation, but the only appropriate end to our encounter with divinely revealed Scripture. Here, in the reading of Woman Wisdom’s longest speech, Hughes demonstrates clearly how ethics and faith meet; the know-how wisdom of right living in God’s world comes together with the wisdom of the only begotten Son through whom and for whom the world was made.”