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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...

The Wisdom of Solomon* is an exhortatory discourse written in Greek by a learned and thoroughly hellenized Jew of Alexandria, after that city’s conquest by Rome in 30 BCE, when the earlier optimism of the Alexandrian Jewish community for a growing rapprochement with the Greeks and for social and cultural acceptance by them, had been replaced by a mounting sense of disillusionment and disappointment. The new Jewish mood was reflected in III Maccabees (ca. 24/23 BCE), where the conception of the Jewish
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