Classics and Religious Studies, Department of
Date of this Version
2005
Abstract
Smooth Words is a well-researched and entertaining, if somewhat uneven, book on women in the Wisdom tradition in ancient Israel. Fontaine, a faculty member at a small Protestant seminary in Newton, MA, writes with her students constantly in mind, her interactions with them informing her scholarship throughout the book. She is also in dialogue with other scholars in the fields of Wisdom literature and feminist scholarship, a dialogue that gives the book academic rigor and depth.
Comments
Published in Expository Times 116:6 (March 2005), pp. 213-214. Copyright © 2005 Sage Publications. Used by permission.