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An 8 page research paper that discusses the personification of Wisdom that is pictured in the Book of Proverbs, drawing on feminist scholarship and discussing its implications. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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of the Bible. The point of wisdom literature is to provide moral instruction, rather than to relate history or a narrative.1 Authorship of Proverbs is largely ascribed to Solomon; however,
the poem concerning the traits of the virtuous or wise woman is appended to the whole book and this personification of wisdom is considered by scholars to be "either the
direct result of the influence of Greek (culture) upon Jewish thought," or "the product of late Jewish metaphysics."2 The significance that Proverbs places on women and femininity is quite
atypical for Old Testament scripture. Therefore, it is not surprising that this book of the Bible has been the focus of considerable feminist scholarship. An examination of a selection
of this literature, as well as investigating these passages in Proverbs, suggests that Proverbs presents the idea that ancient women utilized wisdom within the patriarchal society of their times in
a manner that is opposition to the traditional idea of "good" women being passively dominated men and remaining within the domestic sphere. Carole R. Fontaines feminist approach to the
feminine persona of wisdom in the Book of Proverbs is "richly informed by other biblical texts" and utilizes primary sources of "related textual and material evidence from the Near East"
in order to obtain the principal goal of her text.3 This goal is "move beyond" the way in which the male sages of the Old Testament presented women in order
to investigate how the women of biblical times were themselves "practitioners and performers of wisdom."4 Therefore, Fontaine explores, first of all, the social roles of the women of this era,
as well as how various mythologies pertaining to the earth goddess served to inform the manner in which male scholars present women in Proverbs. Fontaine divides her analysis of
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