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320: The Forgotten Women — Sages and Wise Women

The BEMA Podcast

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The Wisdom Woman in Proverbs

The archetypal wise woman in Proverbs is Folly, who is described as a sex worker. Yoav: She doesn't make him annoyed enough to want to murder her because, you know, she's the hand of Yoav here. But so we have these two examples of a wise woman, woman. And then as the conversation progresses, she elevates her position and then turns that into something that she can get the king to do.

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