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Jesus the Sage: The Pilgrimage of Wisdom is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the early Jesus movement, wisdom in the person of Jesus was believed to have returned to heaven, exalted to the right hand of God, and to reign from there. But Jesus as wisdom had left both his legacy and his influence behind. The sayings of Jesus recorded in the Gospels reflect not only the influence of the Israelite wisdom traditions, but also the tradition of the personification of wisdom. ...

introduction or prologue to and hermeneutical key for all that follows.59 R. C. van Leeuwen has argued that the root metaphors that underlie the material in Proverbs 1–9 are not the notion of the two ways, or Woman Wisdom, but rather the polarities of Wisdom/Folly, good/wicked, life/death, which reflect the limits Yahweh has set on life.60 There is also an epilogue in Prov. 31:10–31 which is an acrostic poem about the good wife or possibly about Woman Wisdom. In between these two ends of the book
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