{"id":1481,"date":"2012-06-19T22:46:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T05:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2014-02-09T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T16:46:09","slug":"dating-and-authorship-of-proverbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/06\/19\/dating-and-authorship-of-proverbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dating and Authorship of Proverbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solomon is the chief author as stated in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Proverbs%201.1&amp;version=NASB\" target=\"new\">1.1<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Proverbs%2010.1&amp;version=NASB\" target=\"new\">10.1<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Proverbs%2025.1&amp;version=NASB\" target=\"new\">25.1<\/a>. First Kings 4:32 gives more insight into this. The verse explains that Solomon was the author of more than 3,000 proverbs and 1,500 songs. If he was famous for all these proverbs, he must have written a few. Proverbs contains 915 verses and at least as many proverbs.<\/p>\n<p>Other authors include Agur who is the author of the chapter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Proverbs+30&amp;version=NASB\" target=\"new\">thirty<\/a>. While\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Proverbs%2031.1-9&amp;version=NASB\" target=\"new\">31.1-9<\/a>\u00a0was authored by Lemuel and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Proverbs%2031.10-31&amp;version=NASB\" target=\"new\">31.10-31<\/a>\u00a0was by an unknown author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solomon is the chief author as stated in\u00a01.1,\u00a010.1, and\u00a025.1. First Kings 4:32 gives more insight into this. The verse explains that Solomon was the author of more than 3,000 proverbs and 1,500 songs. If he was famous for all these proverbs, he must have written a few. Proverbs contains 915 verses and at least as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/06\/19\/dating-and-authorship-of-proverbs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dating and Authorship of Proverbs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-studies","category-proverbs","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}