This course, offered during Spring School 2003, aims to introduce the student to the Book of Proverbs and to apply the book's wisdom to specific areas of life. The introduction will consider among other things the sage's epistemology; a definition of his terms "wisdom," "fear of the Lord," "Woman Wisdom," and his theory of religious education.

The course will also consider the book's structure, its doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity, and its connection to the wisdom of Jesus Christ. The book's wisdom will be specifically applied to communication/speech, wealth/money, marriage/husband and wife, parenting, and friendship.

Bruce Waltke is Professor Emeritus in Old Testament Studies at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of Genesis: A Commentary, Creation and Chaos, Finding the Will of God: A Pagan Notion?, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, and commentaries on Micah. He also served on the translation committee of the NIV Bible.

V. Philips Long joined Regent College in the Fall of 2000 after teaching at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri for 15 years years. After receiving his MDiv from Gordon-Conwell, Phil served for four years with Greater Europe Mission in Germany as a lecturer in Biblical Languages and Old Testament Exegesis. He obtained his PhD at Cambridge and has also studied at the University of Heidelberg and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of many books including The Art of Biblical History.