Proverbs: A Mindfulness Translation

Proverbs: A Mindfulness Translation. This Mindfulness Translation reclaims Proverbs in the style of an Eastern philosophic text, using terms and categories that bring out the Koan-like sentences and Haiku-style phrasing of the original Hebrew text. The visually clear layout of the book, which contains a translation of the entire text of Proverbs, highlights the translator's fresh approach to this essential classic of ancient Israelite and global spirituality.

Special Features:

A concise introduction describes the ancient wisdom context of this text, discusses its authorship, describes the book's thematic structure, and explains special vocabulary used in this translation.The chapters of sayings are arranged as speeches and as collections of sayings, admonitions, aphorisms, and epigrams.The work unfolds by thought-units, rather than verse numbers, for ease of reading and comprehension.A select bibliography allows further investigation into this classic work of ancient Israelite spirituality and world philosophic speculation. The first appendix allows readers to quickly compare this work to typical chapter-and-verse translations of Proverbs.The comparative word list lets readers quickly see how key Hebrew wisdom terms are rendered in this work.