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Proverbs as Polysemous

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Proverbs as Polysemous Faith Seeking Understanding

In our eighth episode on Wisdom in the Old Testament, we continue our exploration of Proverbs and how Christians should read them. In particular, we discuss how individual proverbs can have a wide range of applications, and how the book of Proverbs leverages this property (called “polysemy”) in its organization and repetition of them.