Was Woman Wisdom in Proverbs just a metaphor? Or God Herself? I asked this question several years ago in this post. But after I wrote it, I came to disagree with my own conclusions. I read Virginia Ramey Mollenkott’s wonderful book, The Divine Feminine: The Biblical Imagery of God as Female. I now believe that […]
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A Voice that Resembles the Lord’s “Listen closely, for what I say is worth hearing, and I will tell you what is right…” (Prov. 8:6). Wisdom shows up as a woman in Proverbs 1-9 and other wisdom literature. In the Hebrew, she is Chochma. Scholar Roland E. Murphy writes of this unusual personification: “Justice and
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John the Baptizer didn’t come eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, “He’s demonized!” The Son of Woman has come eating and drinking, and you say, “Look, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and outsiders!” But Wisdom is vindicated by all her children. (Luke 7:33-35, DFV) This week I found
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