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The Book of Wisdom, or the Wisdom of Solomon, is a book written in Greek and most likely composed in Alexandria, Egypt. It is not part of the Hebrew Bible but is included in the Septuagint . Generally dated to the mid-first century BC , [ 1 ] or to the reign of Caligula (AD 37-41), [ 2 ] the central theme of the work is " wisdom " itself ...
Manuscript history. [edit] The earliest extant manuscripts of the Odes of Solomon date from around the end of the 3rd century and the beginning of the 4th century: the Coptic Pistis Sophia, a Latin quote of a verse of Ode 19 by Lactantius, and the Greek text of Ode 11 in Papyrus Bodmer XI. Before the 18th century, the Odes were only known ...
[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. [28] [29] Solomon's name is not mentioned in the story and he is simply called "the king ...
Testament of Solomon. The Testament of Solomon is a pseudepigraphical composite text ascribed to King Solomon but not regarded as canonical scripture by Jews or Christian groups. It was written in the Greek language, based on precedents dating back to the early 1st millennium AD, but was likely not completed in any meaningful textual sense ...
The Book of Proverbs (Hebrew: מִשְלֵי, Mišlê; Greek: Παροιμίαι; Latin: Liber Proverbiorum, "Proverbs (of Solomon)") is a book in the third section (called Ketuvim) of the Hebrew Bible traditionally ascribed to King Solomon and his students later appearing in the Christian Old Testament. [ 1 ] When translated into Greek and ...
The Magical Treatise of Solomon,[1][2]also known as the Hygromanteia(Greek: Ὑγρομαντεία)[a]or Solomonikê(Greek: Σολομωνική),[4][b]is a collection of late Byzantine-era grimoireswritten in medieval Greek. A pseudepigraphon, the book purports to contain Solomon's instructions to his son Rehoboamon various magical techniques ...
Tablet of the Dialogue between a Man and His God, c. 19th–17th centuries BC, Louvre. Wisdom literatureis a genre of literaturecommon in the ancient Near East. It consists of statements by sagesand the wisethat offer teachings about divinityand virtue. Although this genre uses techniques of traditional oral storytelling, it was disseminated in ...
Peter Schäfer argues that Philo's Logos was derived from his understanding of the "postbiblical Wisdom literature, in particular the Wisdom of Solomon". [72] The Wisdom of Solomon is a Jewish work composed in Alexandria, Egypt, around the 1st century BCE, with the aim of bolstering the faith of the Jewish community in a hostile Greek world. It ...