books.google.ca - This book examines the personification of Wisdom as a female figure - a central motif in Proverbs, Job, Sirach, Wisdom and Baruch. Sinnott argues that by personifying Wisdom the authors of Proverbs responded to Israel's defeat by Babylon and the loss of Davidic monarchy, and by retrieving and transforming...http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Personification_Of_Wisdom.html?id=cSmldJgaEawC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Personification Of Wisdom