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Decatur, GA— Christine Roy Yoder is the author of
Proverbs, a new commentary in the series Abingdon
Old Testament Commentaries (Nashville: Abingdon).
Yoder is associate professor of Old Testament
language, literature, and exegesis at Columbia
Theological Seminary, in Decatur, GA.
This new work has brought Yoder high praise from Old
Testament scholars, among them Richard Clifford of
Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, and
Walter Brueggemann, her former colleague at
Columbia.
Clifford says, “Drawing on her extensive work on
Proverbs, Christine Yoder has given us a well
written, imaginative, and pastorally sensitive
commentary on this difficult but rewarding book.”
“The wisdom teaching of Proverbs is a great gift to
‘progressive thinkers’ who want to move beyond
primitive supernaturalism and yet attend to the
starchy givenness of the world governed by God,”
says Brueggemann. “Yoder sees clearly how that
interpretation mattered in the ancient world in
order to maintain a viable social life. She knows as
well how it may matter to contemporary readers to
whom she offers the wondrous gift of this book.”
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