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Very good: As I did more research, I learned that indeed the only instructive language in the poem is directed at the poem’s intended male audience: Praise her for all her hands have done. And yet many Christians interpret this passage prescriptively, as a command to women rather than an ode to women, with the home-based endeavors of the Proverbs 31 woman cast as the ideal lifestyle for all women of faith. An empire of books, conferences, products, and media has evolved from a subtle repositioning the poem’s intended audience from that of men to that of women. [...] No longer presented as a song through which a man offers a woman praise, Proverbs 31 is presented as a task list through which a woman earns it. This, I believe, misses the point of the text entirely.
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 12:07:58 +0000

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