From Books.
Learning to Love Wisdom can be read online and downloaded using the links below. It can also be purchased online. Paperback books are available at no cost (apart from postage) via email. They are 230mm by 154mm with bleached board 235 gsm covers, precision laser 90 gsm text pages and perfect bound finishing.
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“Don draws out conclusions in an original way that is greater than the sum of the parts. … I feel like I have learned to see these lectures and speeches in a new way”. Dr Elizabeth Boase, Academic Dean (Learning & Teaching), Adelaide College of Divinity; Head of Theology, Flinders University; Lecturer in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible.
Learning to Love Wisdom considers the educational, social and theological themes evident in these initial chapters, mindful of the place of wisdom literature in the Hebrew Bible, and with a view to the implications for our present-day lives. Providing wise guidance and counsel, especially to young people, about life’s opportunities and challenges is central to community sustainability and growth. The first nine chapters of the book of Proverbs describe a father’s discourse with his son and personify wisdom in the context of fearing Yahweh and living wisely.
Learning to Love Wisdom begins with Significant Themes in Proverbs 1 to 9, a modified version of the main part of my 2014 Flinders University Master of Theological Studies dissertation on Educational, Social and Theological Themes in Proverbs 1–9. Edited appendices are included in Further Considerations, along with some insights from Tremper Longman III’s, Fear of the Lord Is Wisdom: A Theological Introduction to Wisdom in Israel, The (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2017) and several reflections. I conclude with a poem I wrote while completing my original dissertation.
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