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The study spotlights the importance of ethical discourse on icons in the Book of Wisdom. Using structural, semantic, and topological analyses, it shows that parenesis about false and true images of God is an overarching theme, and contextualizes it in terms of tradition and cultural history. The text makes a unique contribution to the ancient debate on images by positing that they fulfill the imago dei invested in human beings. Trotz des anhaltenden Interesses an der Sapientia Salomonis besteht hinsichtlich der inhaltlichen und gattunggeschichtlichen Gesamteinordnung der jüdisch-hellenistischen Schrift noch immer Dissens. Die Heterogenität der verwendeten Themen, Traditionen und Genres scheint diese zu unterbinden, bleiben doch die Studien bei Teilkomplexen oder bei der literarkritischen Feststellung der Uneinheitlichkeit des Textes stehen. Auch die zuletzt vermehrt zugeschriebene strukturelle Kohärenz führte bisher nicht zu einer entsprechenden inhaltlichen Gesamtdeutung der Schrift. Gestützt auf strukturelle, semantische und topologische Analysen wird in dieser Studie die Paränese hinsichtlich wahrer und falscher Gottesbildern als Leitmotiv bzw. Hauptthema der überlieferten Endkomposition aufgezeigt. Weitere bildtheoretische, traditions- sowie kulurgeschichtliche Kontextualisierungen explizieren die Spezifika der ethisch ikonischen Ausführungen. Mit dem Postulat der Verwirklichung des im Menschen angelegten Ebenbilds durch ethische Nachahmung Gottes bietet die Schrift letzlich nicht nur einen spezifisch jüdischen Beitrag zur antiken Bilderdebatte, ihr kommt zudem eine Brückenfunktion zwischen biblischen und späteren Imago-Dei-Konzeptionen zu.

Book of Wisdom. --- Buch der Weisheit. --- Imago Dei. --- Sapientia Salomonis. --- Weisheit Salomos. --- Wisdom of Solomon. --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Theologians and Old Testament scholars have been at odds with respect to the best interpretation of the imago Dei. Theologians have preferred substantialistic (e.g., image as soul or mind) or relational interpretations (e.g., image as relational personhood) and Old Testament scholars have preferred functional interpretations (e.g., image as kingly dominion). The disagreements revolve around a number of exegetical questions. How do we best read Genesis 1 in its literary, historical, and cultural contexts? How should it be read theologically? How should we read Genesis 1 as a canonical text? This book charts a path through these disagreements by offering a dogmatically coherent and exegetically sound canonical interpretation of the image of God. Peterson argues that the fundamental claim of Genesis 1:26–28 is that humanity is created to image God actively in the world. “Made in the image of God” is an identity claim. As such, it tells us about humanity’s relationship with God and the rest of creation, what humanity does in the world, and what humanity is to become. Understanding the imago Dei as human identity has the further advantage of illuminating humanity’s ontology.Canonically, knowledge of the contours and purpose of human existence develops alongside God’s self-revelation. Tracing this development, Peterson demonstrates the coherence of the OT and NT texts that refer to the image of God. In the NT, Jesus Christ is understood as the realization of God’s image in the world and therefore the fulfillment of the description of humanity’s identity in Genesis 1. In addition to its specific focus on resolving interdisciplinary tensions for Christian interpretation of the imago Dei, the argument of the book has important implications for ethics, the doctrine of sin, and the doctrine of revelation.

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