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Welcome back to the Naked Bible Podcast.

In the last episode, we continued our series on studying the Bible in light of its various

types of literature.

Its literary genres, and again a genre is a kind of literature.

We looked at parables last time and offered some guidelines for interpreting them.

In this episode, we're going to briefly look at another familiar type of biblical literature

that is sad to say at times badly misunderstood, and that is the proverb.

Its probably best to start with what Proverbs are.

In an nutshell, Proverbs are time-tested truths.

They are axiomatic sayings that, by and large, are shown to be correct in life.

That's why they're typically found in literature that is called wisdom literature.

The nature of a proverb is to dispense some sort of truism in a memorable way.

And since they are, by definition, short, pithy sayings, their brevity doesn't provide

space for addressing all the possible contingencies or exceptions to them that could arise.

I like the way that biblical scholars Gordon Fee and Douglas Stewart put it very clearly

and concisely when they wrote, quote,

Proverbs are worded to be memorable rather than to be technically precise.

So if that's what Proverbs are, then how are they misunderstood?

How should we not look at Proverbs?

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