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The Wisdom of Solomon is a long and subtly poetic work placed in the mouth of “wise” King Solomon. It blends biblical thought and Middle Platonism. David Winston thoroughly analyzes the book, presenting the philosophical situation clearly and putting forth evidence to suggest that the work was written later than is commonly supposed, during the reign of Caligula (A.D. 37–41), and by a single...

(Exod 21:23ff; Lev 24:18ff; Deut 19:21), and appears frequently in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. Cf. Jub 4:31–32; 48:14; 2 Macc 4:38; 13:8; 5:10; 15:32ff; Test.Gad 5:10; LAB 44:10; 43:5; 45:3; Matt 7:2. The rabbis were equally fond of elaborating this principle. Cf. M.Sotah 1.7–9: “With the kind of measure that a man measures they shall mete [out] to him: she [the faithless wife] adorned herself for transgression, the Almighty reduced her to shame; she exposed herself for transgression, the Almighty
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