“Archaeologists and scholars say a scroll unearthed in present-day Palestine is a long lost chapter of the ancient book of Proverbs. The so-called ‘thirty-second chapter’ reveals that the industrious woman portrayed in Proverbs 31 was a myth, albeit a cruel one.

‘This is a day of liberation,’ said Jennifer Scorgan, the speaker at a women’s retreat in Ohio, when news about the discovery filtered in. The meeting was interrupted to make the announcement, and women burst into tears, then stood on their chairs and cheered.” Lark News [via walker]