Jaime Clark Soles, “Israel’s Scriptures in John,” in Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings: The Use of the Old Testament in the New, edited by Matthias Henze and David Lincicum (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2023), 300.
Woman Wisdom is powerfully alluded to in John. Read the prologue (John 1:1-18) alongside Prov 8:22-31; Sir 24:1-9; and Prov 1:20-33, and John casts Jesus in the mould of Woman Wisdom. Woman Wisdom…is God’s partner: she helps to create the world (e.g., Prov 8:22-31), she delights in the human race, and she continually tries to help humans get knowledge and eschew ignorance (e.g., Prov 8:32-36). She cries aloud incessantly (e.g., Prov 1:20-21). Unfortunately, Scripture indicates that she is often rejected because fools hate knowledge and, more often than not, humans would rather wallow in ignorance (e.g., Prov 1:29-31). The theme of Jesus’s rejection in John becomes more poignant when one understands that John draws upon both Isaiah (overtly) and Woman Wisdom (allusively).
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