Wisdom
in International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament
Pages
523
Publisher
Kohlhammer
Published
7/24/2019
ISBN-13
978-3-17-022425-4
For the first time, the present commentary brings together all relevant aspects necessary to understand and appreciate this late portion of Old Testament Scripture: textual criticism; detailed philological and literary analysis; the text's two-fold historical context in its Hellenistic environment, on the one hand, and in the biblical tradition on the other; and ultimately the very innovative theology of the book of Wisdom. Aspects of the book's reception history as well as hermeneutical questions round off the commentary on the text.