famous alphabet poem concluding Proverbs [31:10–31] as the Bible’s picture of the perfect woman, and envision an industrious, middle-class, somewhat homely, churchgoing housewife. But the “spirituality” framing such conceptions of bodily human love are conditioned more by pagan Greek philosophical anthropologies than the holy Scriptures. The apostle Paul [still often misread as a Stoic] explicitly condemned a strait-laced, killjoy approach to life [1 Timothy 4:1–5]. To be repressive or dull is not