Chapter XLVIII: Section CV: The Wise and Their Teachings. GENERAL QUESTIONS

1. Describe the literary structure of the book of Proverbs. 2. The evidence that it is the work of many different wise men. 3. The probable date of the different collections. 4. The references to the wise in the pre-exilic literature. 5. The influence of the Babylonian exile upon their activity. 6. The reasons why they attained their greatest prominence in the Greek period. 7. The character of the wise. 8. Their aims. 9. Their methods. 10. Their important social and moral teachings.

SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. The book of Proverbs. McFadyen, _Introd. to O.T._, 256-63; Driver, _L. O.T._, 392-407; Toy, _Proverbs_, Introd. 2. The sages of Egypt and Greece. The Wisdom of Ptah-hotep, in the _Wisdom of the East Series_; Symonds, _Studies of the Greek Poets_, I, 161-273; Jebb, _Classical Greek Poetry_. 3. The social teachings of the book of Proverbs. _St. O. T_., VI, _in loco_; Kent, _The Wise Men of Ancient Israel and Their Proverbs_, 100-14, 158-75; Root, _The Profit of the Many_, 17-126.