Woman Wisdom: Chokmah, Sophia, Wisdom in the Old Testament

“Woman Wisdom” was well established in the Hebrew literature of the Old Testament long before the New Testament era. The patriarchal (some might say misogynistic) leaders of the post-Apostolic Christian Church, especially after the 2nd century, so completely suppressed this idea of the feminine personification of God, that they had to invent the cult of Mary in the 5th and 6th centuries to redress the obvious, embarrassing imbalance!

If you want to explore the beautiful ancient Hebrew tradition of the Feminine emanation of the Godhead (called Chokmah in Hebrew, Sophia in Greek, and Wisdom in English), try the following:

Proverbs 1-9
Wisdom of Solomon 7-9
Sirach (AKA Ecclestiasticus) 24

In the interest of full disclosure, my male noetic intuition has always experienced both Wisdom (Chokmah) and the Holy Spirit (Ruach) as female. In case you think that’s in error or heretical, let me point out that in Hebrew both Chokmah and Ruach are feminine nouns.

Chokmah, eastern orthodox tradition, Old Testament, Proverbs, sophia, Western Latin Tradition, Wisdom, Woman Wisdom, Women

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