Monday, October 8, 2007

If Wisdom is personified as a woman....

why are no real wise women found in the wisdom literature?

"After searching long without success: I have found one man in a thousand worthy to be called upright, but I have not found one woman among them all" - Ecclesiastes 7:28

(that makes me mad!)

I definitely think it's cool that Wisdom is personified as a woman in Proverbs... this seems radical, against the background of a text where women are only praised for their work as wives.