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- Title: Septuagint: Wisdom of Solomon
- Author : Scriptural Research Institute
- Release Date : January 14, 2020
- Genre: Bible Studies,Books,Religion & Spirituality,Judaism,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 361 KB
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The Wisdom of Solomon was added to the Septuagint sometime between 250 and 132 BC, and while it was traditionally attributed to King Solomon, today scholars generally believed to have been composed in Greek, shortly before it was added to the Septuagint. It was not preserved within the Masoretic Texts, and no fragments of it have yet been identified within the Dead Sea Scrolls, which does support this conclusion. As the Masorites did not copy the Wisdom of Solomon, it was ultimately dropped from most Protestant bibles, however, remains part of the Catholic, Orthodox, and Tewahedo Bibles. The Wisdom of Solomon is also included in the Old Testament of the Peshitta, the bible of the various Syrian churches, which, according to tradition were translated directly from Hebrew. Most western scholars believe the Old Testament of the Peshitta to have been translated from the Greek Septuagint, however, some of the textual difference between the Peshitta and Septuagint do match Hebrew and Aramaic text found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, which supports at least some of the Peshitta having been translated from Hebrew or Aramaic, and if so, the Peshitta's Wisdom of Solomon could be a relic of a Hebrew or Aramaic precursor to the Septuagint's version.
The Wisdom of Solomon itself appears to have been redacted before the Greek translation, as the first half is about the spirit of wisdom, Sophia in Greek, who is credited with actually doing most of what the Lord (Iaw/Yahweh) was credited with doing in the Septuagint and Masoretic Texts, however, this changes abruptly to crediting the Lord in chapter 11, and Sophia disappeared entirely from the rest of the book. Chapter 11 was also the beginning of what scholars call the 'history' section of the book, which generally retold the history found in the Torah up until the exodus from Egypt, however, with some differences. One significant difference was the identification of the Lord as the Sun.
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