Bulletin for Biblical Research (6) (1996) 15-22

29 See Garrett, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, 93, and C. H. Toy, The Book. of Proverbs, International Critical Commentary (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1899), 114. 30 Though many believe that blessings are rooted in a magical view of the power of. the spoken word, this seems doubtful. Blessings (as well as curses) were a way of ................
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