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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 ...
Pleased, God personally answered Solomon's prayer, promising him great wisdom because he did not ask for self-serving rewards like long life or the death of his enemies. Perhaps the best known story of his wisdom is the Judgement of Solomon; two women each lay claim to being the mother of the same child. Solomon easily resolved the dispute by ...
It stands at the corner of the Doge's Palace in Venice (Italy), next to Porta della Carta. The Judgement of Solomon is a story from the Hebrew Bible in which Solomon ruled between two women who both claimed to be the mother of a child. Solomon ordered the baby be cut in half, with each woman to receive one half.
Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple (Hebrew: בֵּית-הַמִּקְדָּשׁ הָרִאשׁוֹן, romanized: Bēṯ ham-Mīqdāš hā-Rīšōn, lit. 'First House of the Sanctum'), was a biblical Temple in Jerusalem believed to have existed between the 10th and 6th centuries BCE. Its description is largely based on ...
e. 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 ...
Solomon's seal Talismanic scroll bearing Solomon's Seal, 11th-century Fatimid Caliphate. The Seal of Solomon or Ring of Solomon (Hebrew: חותם שלמה, Ḥotam Shlomo; Arabic: خاتم سليمان, Khātam Sulaymān; Turkish: Süleyman’ın Mührü) is the legendary signet ring attributed to the Israelite king Solomon in medieval mystical traditions, from which it developed in parallel ...
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 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 ...