Personification in the Bible Personification in the Bible Personification, the attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract concepts such as nations, emotions and natural forces like seasons and the weather, is a literary device found in many ancient texts, including the Hebrew Bible and Christian New Testament. Personification is often part of allegory, parable and metaphor in the Bible. A famous example of personification is the personification of Wisdom as a woman in the Book of Proverbs, or natural forces in the Book of Job. An early example of zoomorphism in the Hebrew Bible is when sin is likened to an animal "crouching"
World's second oldest profession World's second oldest profession The English idiom world's second-oldest profession is used to refer to a number of professions, playing on the common comment that prostitution is the world's oldest profession. One frequent use of the phrase is to refer to spies and spying. An explanation of this phrase is that it must be the second-oldest profession because it is mentioned in the Book of Joshua. Paul Reynolds, a writer with the "BBC", noted: ""Rahab, of course, was engaged in the oldest profession."" Ronald Reagan nominated politician as the second-oldest profession with the alleged quip, ""Someone once said that politics