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Wisdom as a Woman of Substance: A Socioeconomic Reading of Proverbs 1-9 and 31:10-31

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2001
ISBN
3110170078, 9783110170078
ISSN
0934-2575
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12387403 bytes)
Series
Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 304
Pages
xiv+166\182
Topic
Religion
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-07-27 08:24:30

Description

The book is a slightly reworked version of a doctoral thesis submitted to Princeton Theological Seminary (supervisor Choon Leong Seow). It aims to clarify the origin of the wisdom figure in Prov 1-9 with regard to the poem about the so-called "woman of worth" in Prov 31:10-31. In a short review of current interpretations Yoder demonstrates that until now, the concept of personified Wisdom has mainly been traced back to a goddess tradition whereas its counterpart, the "strange" woman or, rather "Woman Folly" was related to real women. Yoder aims to bridge this interpretative hiatus by reconsidering the socioeconomic background of the texts mentioned, and the perception of women that may have shaped the sage's ideas about Wisdom. Methodologically her approach is a continuation of recent studies on the sociohistorical background of wisdom literature which for the book of Proverbs have been focused on the figure of the "strange" woman (J. Blenkinsopp, T. C. Eskenazi, C. Maier, H. C. Washington). In addition to this perspective, Yoder attempts to confirm the oft-stated date of the book's frame texts as being in the Persian Period by a thorough analysis of its linguistic evidence.

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