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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The woman in the Song of Songs was “black and beautiful” (Song 1:5). She is often thought of only as the Shulamite today (6:13), and many scholars assume her to be fictional. However, from the time of Origen, readers have speculated that Solomon wrote about his actual first wife, an Egyptian, says scholar Alice Ogden …
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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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