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A:Wisdom, or 'Lady Wisdom', in the Book of Proverbs, was a spirit/goddess who became popular among the Jews from the time of the Babylonian Exile until the end of the first century CE. B. Lang (Wisdom and the Book of Proverbs: An Israelite Goddess Redefined) says that she was the ancient Hebrew goddess of wisdom. Probably in post-Exilic Judaism, it was no longer possible to worship her as a true goddess.

Proverbs portrays her as a benign and powerful spirit, rather than as the earlier goddesses like Asherah, although verse 8:23-31 says that Wisdom was with God from the very beginning, from time everlasting.

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