ON THE QUESTION OF THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE BIBLICAL WIFE OF WISDOM AND THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GODDESS MAAT

Priest Georgy Andrianov

PhD in Theology, Rector of the Kostroma Theological Seminary

Kostroma Theological Seminary, Kostroma, Russia

Email: rector44@mail.ru

Issue: № 4 (16), 2021

Pages: 11

Annotation

The article examines the issue related to the identification of the ancient Egyptian goddess Maat with Her Wife Wisdom from the Book of Proverbs of Solomon. The author examines the features of the cult of Maat and the specifics of the image of the Wife of Wisdom in the context of the historical era. The reader is offered the main theses that can lead to this identification and their analysis is offered. When working on the article, new foreign studies in this field were used.

Keywords

Bible, Book of Proverbs of Solomon, Wisdom, wisdom, wisdom, goddess Maat, maat, Ancient Egypt, literary parallels, personification, biblical criticism, egyptology.

For citation

Andrianov G. V, priest. On the question of the identification of the Biblical Wife of Wisdom and the ancient Egyptian goddess Maat // Ipatievsky vestnik. — 2021. — № 4. — Р. 11–27.