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The Wisdom of Solomon, an early Jewish text that also became a part of the Catholic canon, has become pivotal for understanding both Hellenistic Judaism and the development of the Israelite wisdom tradition. This guide provides an introduction to all the main aspects of scholarship on the book, including its structure, the “Hellenistic midrash,” the figure of wisdom, the context of its writing,...

The mortality of the just is viewed positively in relation to God as a final moment of self-surrender to the divine. In their false reasoning, mortality is judged by the wicked to be the ultimate, destructive fate of human destiny from which no value can be derived. The ironic twist in the wicked’s reasoning, as the author presents it, is that by their own decisions they bring on the very fate which they so much despise and mask. By despising weakness and mortality, the wicked receive the sentence
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