RT Article
T1 The Justice of the Cosmos: Philosophical Cosmology and Apocalyptic Eschatology in the Wisdom of Solomon
JF New Testament studies
VO 67
IS 4
SP 598
OP 612
A1 Atkins, Christopher S.
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1772597333
AB This article argues that the Wisdom of Solomon complicates Martinus C. de Boer's typology of two ‘tracks’ of Jewish apocalyptic eschatology (‘forensic apocalyptic eschatology’ and ‘cosmological apocalyptic eschatology’). Wisdom, which entails both ‘forensic’ depictions of an eschatological courtroom (5.1-14) and ‘cosmological’ depictions of cosmic war (5.15-23), offers a cosmology fundamentally incompatible with the cosmology presumed in de Boer's ‘cosmological apocalyptic eschatology’. Instead of envisioning eschatological justice as the result of a divine invasion, Wisdom envisions it as the result of divine pervasion. That is, cosmological eschatology in Wisdom entails a fully functioning, divinely pervaded cosmos operating as it was intended to operate. Wisdom innovates within Jewish apocalyptic tradition by employing the mythological idiom of apocalypticism to defend the philosophical claim that the cosmos is just and facilitates life for those who are likewise just.
K1 Hellenistic Philosophy
K1 Stoicism
K1 Wisdom of Solomon
K1 Cosmology
K1 Eschatology
K1 Pneuma
DO 10.1017/S0028688521000114