SAPERE XXVII: Sapientia Salomonis (Wisdom of Solomon)

Sapientia Salomonis (Wisdom of Solomon), introduced, translated and provided with interpretative essays by Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr / Walter Ameling / Folker Blischke / Mareike Blischke / Alfons Fürst / Rainer Hirsch-Luipold / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath / Maren R. Niehoff / Friedrich V. Reiterer, Tübingen 2015.

The Sapientia Salomonis (Wisdom of Solomon) has been handed down since antiquity in the Christian Bible as part of the Old Testament, and in this way has deeply influenced the thinking, religious ideas and ethics of the Christian world to this day. Originally, however, the Scriptures came from Hellenistic Judaism, probably from Alexandria around the turn of the century, and are thus a classic example of the interpenetration of biblical-Jewish tradition and Greco-Roman culture. This is characteristically shown in the scriptures by the reception of biblical (in part already ancient Oriental) wisdom traditions and their combination with themes, concepts and linguistic forms of Greek philosophy. For the writings of the New Testament, this combination of oriental and Greek culture, which we summarise under the term "Hellenism", became a formative intellectual and cultural prerequisite.

Niebuhr, Karl-Wilhelm; Ameling, Walter; Blischke, Folker; Fürst, Alfons; Hirsch-Luipold, Rainer; Nesselrath, Heinz-Günther; Niehoff, Maren R.; Reiterer, Friedrich V.
Composite volume; German, Ancient Greek
Published: 2015
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck Verlag: Tübingen
ISBN: 978-3-16-152808-8