Category Archives: wisdom

Wisdom: craftsman, child or companion?

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: September 24, 2008

I’m continuing to look at the portrayal of Wisdom in Proverbs 8. Several Bibles have noted that the translation of 8.30 has significant theological importance in our understanding of who and how God created the heavens and the earth in Genesis 1-2. There seem to be three main views: that (a) Wisdom was God’s companion, [...]

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Reflections on the messianic daughter and the image of God

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: September 23, 2008

In his book, In the End – The Beginning, Jürgen Moltmann writes that in contrast to the tradition of the Messiah as a male child as written in Isaiah 9.6 (”to us a child is born, to us a son is given”, there is another messianic tradition in scripture, the Wisdom tradition, that “identifies the [...]