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Woman Wisdom

Job 28:1-28, Proverbs 1:20-33, 3:13-18, 4:1-9, 7:1-5, 8:1-36, 9:1-6, 14:1)

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

  • “Woman Wisdom: Bible” by Claudia V. Camp in Jewish Women’s Archive

  • “The Women in the Book of Proverbs: Woman Wisdom Versus Woman Folly” by Scott Ventureyra

  • “Proverbs: Lady Wisdom & Lady Folly” podcast episode of Bible Project (July 1, 2019)

  • "Wisdom's Table is God's Table" by Wil Gafney

  • "Woman Wisdom and the Woman of Substance" by Christine Roy Yoder

Books

  • “In the Beginning with Lady Wisdom” podcast episode of Bible Project (May 10, 2021)

  • “Wise and Strange: An Interpretation of the Female Imagery in Proverbs in Light of Trickster Mythology” by Claudia V. Camp, (pp. 131-156) in A Feminist Companion to Wisdom Literature, ed. Athalya Brenner (1995)

  • The Divine Feminine in Biblical Wisdom Literature: Selections Annotated & Explained by Rabbi Rami Shapiro (2005)

  • "Proverbs" by Christine Roy Yoder in Women's Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2012)

*Also mentioned in the Apocrypha (see Apocryphal Women)

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This project has been created by Founder and Executive Director Debbie McLeod alongside a team of Yale-educated researchers: Anna Grace Glaize, McKenzie Brummond, Moriah Asch, Brian Peterson, Laura Traverse, Phoebe Oler, and Sarah Ambrose

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