through the order of creation and the writings of the sages in their teachings, which came eventually to be identified with the Torah. God was known through nature and sapiential insight emerging from imagination. Presented through the canons of prosaic discourse, revelation was viewed as an intellectual eros or the alluring incarnation of divine Wisdom, who, like an entrancing and intelligent woman teacher, called the simple to embrace her, to learn from her the pathways to life, and to obtain ultimately