Scholars remain divided today over the origin and identity of the Wisdom Woman in Prov. 1-9. Many roads run back to her door through mythological, 2 sapiential, 3 apocalyptic, 4 rabbinic 5 and early Christian 6 circles of tradition. Attempts to pursue her prior to the book of Proverbs remain difficult, a problem for which at least four solutions have been proposed.

The purpose of this article is to examine major interrelated issues that are present in current discussions about the biblical Flood narrative of Gen 6-9. These include such questions as: the unity and literary genre of these chapters, the nature and extent of the biblical Flood, the relationship between history and theology in the Flood narrative, and the relationship of the biblical Flood nar...

F AMILY RELATIONSHIPS, especially the disruptive potential of libidinal and aggressive drives within the nuclear family, are among the most common themes of mythology. The theme of twinship in mythology can be seen as the focus of real and projected psychological tensions and their imagined or preferred solutions. Mythological fascination with twins and twinship and some parallels between ancie...