SCRIPTURAL STUDIES The Woman of Worth: Impressions of ...

Proverbs 31 has been quoted in sermons since the beginning of Chris-tianity, but it assumed a new significance during the Puritan era. A uniquely Puritan twist on the passage was to call the woman of worth "Bathsheba."3 Puritans assumed that Solomon, the traditional author of the Proverbs material, had learned about domesticity from his mother, ................
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