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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. ...

Nevertheless, the real possibility that some of Solomon’s own wisdom teaching is enshrined in the two old collections of maxims in Proverbs should not be ruled out.46 There seems to be a certain development or shift in biblical Wisdom thinking about key matters which can be traced from Proverbs to Ecclesiastes and even beyond to Ben Sira and the Wisdom of Solomon. Proverbs reflects two fundamental assumptions—that the universe is basically harmonious
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