Death and idols in the Wisdom of Solomon

Updated by: 
Shiran Shevah
Research notes: 
SHS/not checked/17/04/2016
Reference type: 
Journal Article
Author(s): 
Dodson, Joseph R.
year: 
2016
Full title: 

Death and idols in the Wisdom of Solomon

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Journal of Jewish Studies
Volume: 
67
Issue / Series Volume: 
1
Abbreviated Series Name: 
JJS
Pages: 
36-45
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

This note considers the implications of the textual variant ‘θάνατος’ in Wisd. 14:13–14. Whether ‘death’ serves as the explicit subject of v. 14 or as a given idea associated with ‘idols’, it makes the parallels between 14:10–14 and chs 1–2 even more conspicuous and thereby underlines a pattern of thinking about creation and corruption that continues throughout Wisdom. Whereas in chs 1–2 death entered by the hands of humanity and through the envy of the devil, in 14:10–14 death entered by handmade idols and through the conceit of evil people. The inclusion of the textual variant shows not only solidarity of thought but also clarity and expansion.

Primary Texts: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: 
Composition / Author: 
Wisdom of Solomon
URL: 
http://www.jjs-online.net/archives/fulltext/3257
Label: 
16/05/2016
Record number: 
101 393