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REVIEW OF BOOKS Samuel CHEON, The Exodus Story in the Wisdom of Solomon: A Study in Biblical Interpretation (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Supplement Series 23), Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield 1997, 169 pp., cloth, £ 27.50, $ 45.00, ISBN 1-85075-670-8. This study, a revised version of a doctoral dissertation which was accepted by the faculty of Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA in June 1994, focuses on discovering the hermeneutical methods the author of Wisdom of Solomon (henceforth: PsSol) has used to interpret the Exodus story. This inves- tigation is accomplished through a comparative analysis of Wisd. 11,1-14 and 16,1-19,22 mainly with the Exodus text and tradition, which here means the Exodus stories in the Pentateuch, the Psalms and the Intertcstamental litera- ture, such as Ezekiel the Tragedian, Artapanus, Philo and Josephus. To accomplish the purpose of this study, the author in Chapters 2 and 3 takes the following steps: (a) He describes and defines each literary unit of 11,1-14 and 16,1-19,22, discussing the scholarly issues it raises. (b) He isolates the textual materials in each literary unit according to the corresponding biblical sections, because different materials arc amalgamated. (c) He compares the text of PsSol with
Journal for the Study of Judaism – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1998
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