The Voice of Wisdom in Ohev Nashim by Yedaiah ha-Penini Salvatierra Ossorio, María Aurora Yedaiah ha-Penini Debate medieval Sabiduría Defensa de las mujeres Ohev nashim (En defensa de la mujer) de Yedayah ha-Penini (c. 1280-después de 1340) se ha considerado una continuación del debate sobre la mujer (y el matrimonio) iniciado con Minhat Yehudah soné ha-nashim de Yehudah ibn Shabbetay. Sin embargo, en mi opinión, este texto no es simplemente un ejemplo más del desarrollo de esta modalidad literaria en la Edad Media. La trama central del texto, narra una batalla entre el malvado rey Cusan y la Sabiduría, la defensora de la virtud de las mujeres. La personificación femenina de la Sabiduría es una imagen profundamente arraigada en el imaginario literario y desplegada en numerosas obras de la Baja Edad Media. La tradición exige que la sabiduría sea personificada como mujer, pero el contexto sociocultural insiste en la separación entre ambas. Esta disonancia aceptada (sabiduría y mujer no van juntas) se difumina en Ohev nashim de Yedayah ha-Penini. En este texto Tebunah aparece como un personaje que lidera la defensa de la mujer y ofrece al público un interesante retrato de las figuras femeninas del libro, incluida la creencia en la racionalidad femenina. Ohev nashim (In Defense of Women) by Yedayah ha-Penini (c. 1280- after 1340) has been considered a continuation of the debate on women (and marriage) which began with Minhat Yehudah soné ha-nashim by Yehudah ibn Shabbetay in the thirteenth century. However, in my opinion, this text is not merely one more example of the development of this literary modality in the Middle Ages. The central plot of the text narrates a battle between the evil king Cushan and Wisdom, the defender of women's virtue. The feminine personification of Wisdom is an image deeply rooted in the literary imagination and deployed in numerous works of the late Middle Ages. Tradition demands that Wisdom be personified as a woman, but the sociocultural context insists on the separation between the two. This accepted dissonance (Wisdom and woman do not go together) is blurred in Yedayah ha-Penini's Ohev nashim. In this text Tebunah appears as a character who leads the defense of women and offers the audience an interesting portrait of the female figures in the book, including the belief in female rationality. 2024-01-08T12:40:09Z 2024-01-08T12:40:09Z 2022 book part And Wisdom Shall Flow from the Wise. Wisdom and Morals in Medieval Literature (eds. T. Bibring-R. Refael Vivante) pp. 105-121. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/86618 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Misgav Yerushalayim Research Center for the Heritage of Sephardi Jewry