Wisdom of Solomon
Deuterocanonical · Poetic Books · 19 chapters
Wisdom personified as a gift of God, with reflections on justice, the destiny of the righteous and God’s care in Israel’s history.
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Context
- Genre
- Wisdom discourse
- Authorship
- Presented under the name of SolomonWritten in Greek, centuries after Solomon.
- Date
- c. 1st century BCE–1st century CE
- Setting
- Alexandria, probably
- Original language
- Greek
- In the original
- σοφίαsophia — wisdom
- Related texts
- Proverbs 8 · wisdom personifiedEcclesiasticus 24 · wisdom dwelling in Israel