In Wis 7:17-21, Solomon speaks about Wisdom and enumerates the manifold powers of the "knowledge" she has given him; so doing, he seems to wear the dresses of an educated hellenistic dynast, rather than showing the archaic habitus of a king who lived in the 10th century b.C. We meet this passage from an 'apocryphal' book not seldom in the writings of Origen, who – especially in his Commentary on Canticle – develops his idea of a 'cyclic' education, which he conceives as a necessary propaedeutic to a thorough study of Scripture. His interest in sciences – particularly mathematics, geometry, astronomy – is confirmed by important witnesses such as Eusebius and Gregory the Thaumatourgos and represents a ring of the long chain connecting Origen with the milieu of Alexandrian culture.
«Certain knowledge of the things that are». Origenian variations on the theme of Wisdom.
CACCIARI, ANTONIO
2009
Abstract
In Wis 7:17-21, Solomon speaks about Wisdom and enumerates the manifold powers of the "knowledge" she has given him; so doing, he seems to wear the dresses of an educated hellenistic dynast, rather than showing the archaic habitus of a king who lived in the 10th century b.C. We meet this passage from an 'apocryphal' book not seldom in the writings of Origen, who – especially in his Commentary on Canticle – develops his idea of a 'cyclic' education, which he conceives as a necessary propaedeutic to a thorough study of Scripture. His interest in sciences – particularly mathematics, geometry, astronomy – is confirmed by important witnesses such as Eusebius and Gregory the Thaumatourgos and represents a ring of the long chain connecting Origen with the milieu of Alexandrian culture.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
