The Justice of the Cosmos: Philosophical Cosmology and Apocalyptic Eschatology in the Wisdom of Solomon
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 cour...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2021
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New Testament studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 67, Issue: 4, Pages: 598-612 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Wisdom
/ Cosmology
/ Eschatology
/ Pneuma
/ Stoicism
/ Hellenism
/ Philosophy
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament NBQ Eschatology VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Hellenistic Philosophy
B Wisdom of Solomon B Pneuma B Cosmology B Eschatology B Stoicism |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688521000114 |