Awards

• Winner of Co-Winner of the 2019 Biblical Foundations Book Award Old Testament Category.
• Winner of Co-winner, Biblical Foundations Book Award for Old Testament, Center for Biblical Studies at Midwestern Seminary, 2019.

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Kynes'An Obituary for Wisdom Literature is invaluable in terms of how it traces the genealogy of wisdom * The Biblical Review * By illustrating how taxonomic categorization as wisdom literature has problemati-cally influenced interpretation, by synthesizing recent discussion of weaknesses in the category's definition, and by providing a metacritical genealogy of the category, Kynes has performed a valuable service. * Stephen A. Long, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly * In his monograph Will Kynes has not only overturned what has been assumed for the past century regarding the texts we associate with wisdom, but has provided a way forward for greater attention to the voice of these texts within the broader canonical witness. * Mark Boda, McMaster University *

Kynes has written a powerful work that forces us to reconsider much we thought we knew and that will probably appear in footnotes for some time. It probably deserves a panel discussion at SBL-though we might wonder which group will be brave enough to do so. * David G. Firth, Trinity College Bristol / University of the Free State, Review of Biblical Literature * Creative, provocative, and winsomely written, the book rewards a careful reading for interpreters of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes, as well as those more generally interested in questions on the nature of genre in literary and biblical interpretation. * Cooper Smith, Wheaton College, Bulletin for Biblical Research * An Obituary for Wisdom Literature provides a weighty contribution to these ongoing discussions. * Ross Harmon, Centre for Biblical Studies * An Obituary for Wisdom Literature is groundbreaking research in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies. Kynes' work is inherently valuable for its contribution to the study of Wisdon in the Hebrew Bible and as an example of the type of original research that Old Testament scholars should be doing. * Robb Coleman, Criswell Theological Review * Kynes provides the most comprehensive and succinct summary of wisdom literature to this date. His summary does not rehash old paradigms or information but presents fresh insights into the issues. * Nicholas Majors, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies * In his monograph Will Kynes has not only overturned what has been assumed for the past century regarding the texts we associate with wisdom, but has provided a way forward for greater attention to the voice of these texts within the broader canonical witness. * Mark Boda, McMaster University * By illustrating how taxonomic categorization as wisdom literature has problemati-cally influenced interpretation, by synthesizing recent discussion of weaknesses in the category's definition, and by providing a metacritical genealogy of the category, Kynes has performed a valuable service. * Stephen A. Long, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly * Kynes'An Obituary for Wisdom Literature is invaluable in terms of how it traces the genealogy of wisdom * The Biblical Review *

Kynes'An Obituary for Wisdom Literature is invaluable in terms of how it traces the genealogy of wisdom * The Biblical Review *

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Will Kynes is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Samford University. He is the author of My Psalm Has Turned into Weeping: Job's Dialogue with the Psalms (de Gruyter, 2012), which received the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2015, and co-editor, with Katharine Dell, of Reading Job Intertextually (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2013), Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2014), and Reading Proverbs Intertextually (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2019).

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