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Luca Giordano: The Dream of Solomon: God promises Solomon wisdom Solomon's Wisdom, 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. Wisdom is the ability to apply knowledge, experience, and good judgment to navigate life’s complexities. It is often associated with insight, discernment, and ethics in decision-making.
Solomon (/ ˈ s ɒ l ə m ə n /), [a] also called Jedidiah, [b] was the fourth monarch of the Kingdom of Israel and Judah, according to the Hebrew Bible. [4] [5] The successor of his father David, he is described as having been the penultimate ruler of all Twelve Tribes of Israel under an amalgamated Israel and Judah.
Melito of Sardis [11] (possibly) in the 2nd century AD, Augustine [12] (c. 397) and Pope Innocent I (405) [13] [14] considered Wisdom of Solomon as part of the Old Testament. Athanasius writes that the Book of Wisdom along with three other deuterocanonical books, while not being part of the Canon, "were appointed by the Fathers to be read". [15]
The story is considered to be literarily unified, without significant editorial intervention. [25] [26] The ending of the story, noting the wisdom of Solomon, is considered to be a Deuteronomistic addition to the text. [1] [27] Some scholars consider the story an originally independent unit, integrated into its present context by an editor.
Proverbs 10:1–22:16, with 375 sayings, consists of two parts, the first part (10–14) contrasting the wise man and the fool (or the righteous and the wicked), the second (15–22:16) addressing wise and foolish speech. [17] Verse 22:17 opens ‘the words of the wise’, until verse 24:22, with short moral discourses on various subjects. [18]
Now to those who ask why all the kings of Egypt from Menes, who built Memphis, and was many years earlier than our forefather Abraham, until Solomon – an interval of more than one thousand three hundred years – were called Pharaōthai, taking their name from Pharaōthes, the first king to reign after the period intervening, I have thought ...
Diogenes Laërtius writes in his account of the life of Pyrrho, the founder of Pyrrhonism, that the Seven Sages of Greece were considered to be precursors of Pyrrho's philosophical skepticism because the Delphic Maxims were skeptical. "The maxims of the Seven Wise Men, too, they call skeptical; for instance, 'Observe the Golden Mean', and 'A ...
Solomon's battle with the demons plays an important role in Sufistic interpretations of Islam as the internal struggle of the self against demonic urges. Generally, Islamic tradition holds that he was the third ruler of the Israelites and a wise one. [3]