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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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This study proposes that both constitutively and rhetorically (through ironic, inferential, and indirect application), Ps 106(105) serves as the substructure for Paul's argumentation in Rom 1:18-2:11. Constitutively, Rom 1:18-32 hinges on the triadic interplay between "they (ex)changed" and "God gave them over," an interplay that creates a sin-retribution sequence with an a-ba-ba-b pattern. Both elements of this pattern derive from Ps 106(105):20, 41a respectively. Rhetorically, Paul ironically applies the psalmic language of idolatrous "(ex)change" and God's subsequent "giving-over" to Gentiles. Aiding this ironic application is that Paul has cast his argument in the mold of Hellenistic Jewish polemic against Gentile idolatry and immorality, similar to Wis 13-15. In Rom 2:1-4, however, Paul inferentially incorporates a hypocritical Jewish interlocutor into the preceding sequence through the charge of doing the "same," a charge that recalls Israel's sins recounted in Ps 106(105). This incorporation then gives way to an indirect application of Ps 106(105):23, by means of an allusion to Deut 9-10 in Rom 2:5-11. Secondarily, this study suggests that Paul's argumentation exploits an intra-Jewish debate in which evocations of the golden calf figured prominently.

Golden calf (Bible) --- Golden calf (Bible). --- Idolatry --- Biblical teaching. --- Bible. --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Criticim, interpretation, etc. --- Golden Calf. --- Psalm 106. --- Romans. --- Wisdom of Solomon.

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The Wisdom of Solomon 10 is a unique passage among Jewish sapiential texts since it both presents Lady Wisdom as God's acting agent in early Israelite history and explicitly categorizes key biblical figures as either righteous or unrighteous. Structurally, Wisdom 10 is a pivotal text that binds the two halves of the book together through its vocabulary and themes. Although chapter 10 is such a unique passage that is central to the work, no full-scale study of this chapter has been attempted. Recent scholarship on the Wisdom of Solomon has focused on the identification of genres in the book's subsections and the author's reinterpretation of Scripture. Through the use of historical and literary criticism, this study especially focuses on the genre and hermeneutical method of Wisdom 10 in comparison to other passages in the book and similar types of literature inside and outside the Bible. Chapter One establishes the purpose and methodology of the study, Chapter Two sets the literary and historical contexts for the Wisdom of Solomon, and Chapters Three to Six analyze the text poetically, form-critically, exegetically, and hermeneutically. This study concludes that Pseudo-Solomon, the book's author, composed and used Wisdom 10 in order to bind the two halves of the book together. Its genre is that of a Beispielreihe, or example list, and its form is an alternation of positive and negative examples that are linked by the repetition of a keyword. The passage also reflects elements of aretalogy, synkrisis, and midrash. Because of the first two of these elements, chapter 10 may be seen as supplementing the encomiastic genre in chapters 6-9. Furthermore, the aretalogical flavor of the text depicts Lady Wisdom in ways similar to the popular Hellenistic Egyptian goddess Isis in order to show Wisdom's superiority to the pagan deity. Lastly, chapter 10 exhibits six primary hermeneutical principles used by the author throughout the book, albeit with differing degrees of focus. Since the Wisdom of Solomon is a late composition, this study illuminates one facet of the Jewish Hellenistic reinterpretation of Scripture and will elucidate similar modes of exegesis in the early rabbinical and early Christian eras.

Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Historiography --- 223.7 --- Wijsheid. Wijsheid van Jesus Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) --- Book of Wisdom. --- Buch der Weisheit. --- Hellenistic Judaism. --- Hellenistisches Judentum. --- Hermeneutics. --- Hermeneutik. --- Weisheit Salomos. --- Wisdom of Solomon. --- Exegese --- RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament. --- Bibelauslegung --- Bibelexegese --- Biblische Auslegung --- Bibelinterpretation --- Biblische Exegese --- Schriftauslegung --- Bibelwissenschaft --- Exeget --- Bibel --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Historiography.

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Death --- Biblical teaching. --- 223.7 --- -Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Wijsheid. Wijsheid van Jesus Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) --- Biblical teaching --- Philosophy --- -Wijsheid. Wijsheid van Jesus Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) --- Bible. O.T. Apocrypha. Wisdom of Solomon --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Bible. --- Book of wisdom (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Ḥokhmat Shelomoh (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Ḥokhmata rabata di-Shelomoh Malka (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Liber sapientiae (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Libro della sapienza (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Sapientia Salomonis (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Sefer Ḥokhmat Shelomoh (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Sophia Salōmōn (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Weisheit Salomos (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Wisdom of Solomon (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Livro da sabedoria (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Sabedoria de Salomão (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Death - Biblical teaching.

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Isaiah 59 portrays a deity in armour warring against rebellious human foes. In this historical investigation, Yoder Neufeld maps the transformation of an ancient tradition into a creative new reading in which God's people put on God's armour and go to battle against God's heavenly foes, as in Ephesians 6. The Pauline recasting of the Isaianic motif, argues the author, is a bracing one.

Spiritual warfare --- Biblical teaching. --- 22.08 --- -Spiritual battle --- Warfare, Spiritual --- Spiritual life --- Demonology --- Bijbelse theologie --- Biblical teaching --- Christianity --- Bible. N.T. Ephesians VI -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bible. N.T. Thessalonians, 1st, V -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bible. O.T. Apocrypha. Wisdom of Solomon V -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bible. O.T. Isaiah LIX -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Enemy in the Bible. --- War -- Biblical teaching. --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- -Bijbelse theologie --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Biblia --- Spiritual warfare - Biblical teaching.