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A:In the Wisdom literature of Judaism, particularly the Book of Proverbs, Wisdom (Greek: Sophia) is described as female because in post-Exilic Jewish thought, Wisdom was a female spirit/goddess. It is suggested that Wisdom might have been the pre-Exilic Hebrew goddess of wisdom. She was venerated until around the end of the first century CE and is even mentioned in the New Testament.

Jewish thinkers like Philo of Alexandria dared to imagine Wisdom as the divine consort of God, and call her a second level divine being through whom God had created the world.

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