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The purpose of talking on this page and adding other contributions to this topic on Wikipedia is in order to expand discussion and research about the Testament of Solomon. Prior to its most recent additions, there was little information in regards to the Testament and its important relationship with Western religion and magic. Though I did not add much more I hope it is enough to extend further scholarly research about this topic. . —Preceding unsigned comment added by DarthBader805 ( talk • contribs) 03:43, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
There is no evidence that the work was written by Solomon, even if it claims to have been written by Solomon. It was common around the first, second, and third centuries BCE/CE for people to claim that a work they wrote was actually by an older author (unless Hermes Trismegistus actually was immortal and also suffered from multiple personality disorder). It is not going with "plain fact" to delete scholarly information about the date of work to make it appear that Solomon actually wrote it. If someone can prove that Conybeare is wrong and that Solomon was somehow aware of ideas that would not come up for centuries, then change the info from him to "some scholars claimed..." and then put the new info in as "but evidence shows that..." Wikipedia is not here to push any view point, religious or otherwise. Ian.thomson ( talk) 01:53, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
I just listened to a documentary on books not included in the Biblical Canon and in it this book was mentioned with reference to words ascribed to Jesus, who after casting the demons out of a man is said to have said, "Behold, you have one greater than Solomon among you". And the documentary points out that Jesus and his audience must have been aware of this book for the reference to make its fullest sense. Barring putting these words into the mouth of Jesus by a later narrater for whom the book had become well known, we might want to put the writing of this work at least to the time of or before the life of Christ. Since the book is not in the Christian Canon I don't think this reference to Solomon after an exorcism was the work of someone in the second century. It appears that quote was kept but the book that explains why Jesus would make that reference to Solomon after casting out demons was not. So the quote makes me think the book pre-dates the first century at least. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.184.102.5 ( talk) 04:36, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Along with the negative presentation she is given in the Bible, the Testament of Solomon presents the Queen of Sheba as a witch, indicating that the author had an awareness of Jewish tradition, which had argued the same.
Where is the Queen of Sheba given a negative presentation in the Bible? Edgar ( talk) 14:05, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
I don't believe she is. She just came to talk to Solomon because he was so smart. Nothing in the canonical Christian Bible refers to her negatively. Gigasuperbunny ( talk) 05:33, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
What is the URL of that free PDF? It is required in order to verify one of the statements in the article. Some religion scholar ( talk) 07:22, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
The first sentence reads "The Testament of Solomon is a Old Testament pseudepigraphical work ascribed to King Solomon." in addition to the grammatical use of "an" before the word 'Old", I believe this is an incorrect statement. There is an Old Testament book called "Song Of Solomon" or "Song of Songs", but this book is not part of any Bible canon that I am aware of. Also, in the 'Dating and Authorship' section, it is written that " its original publication dates sometime between the 1st and 5th centuries". I do not believe any of the Old Testament books are this new. Can we re-word the sentence, and maybe use the word Apocryphal? Wcichello ( talk) 17:19, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
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The purpose of talking on this page and adding other contributions to this topic on Wikipedia is in order to expand discussion and research about the Testament of Solomon. Prior to its most recent additions, there was little information in regards to the Testament and its important relationship with Western religion and magic. Though I did not add much more I hope it is enough to extend further scholarly research about this topic. . —Preceding unsigned comment added by DarthBader805 ( talk • contribs) 03:43, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
There is no evidence that the work was written by Solomon, even if it claims to have been written by Solomon. It was common around the first, second, and third centuries BCE/CE for people to claim that a work they wrote was actually by an older author (unless Hermes Trismegistus actually was immortal and also suffered from multiple personality disorder). It is not going with "plain fact" to delete scholarly information about the date of work to make it appear that Solomon actually wrote it. If someone can prove that Conybeare is wrong and that Solomon was somehow aware of ideas that would not come up for centuries, then change the info from him to "some scholars claimed..." and then put the new info in as "but evidence shows that..." Wikipedia is not here to push any view point, religious or otherwise. Ian.thomson ( talk) 01:53, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
I just listened to a documentary on books not included in the Biblical Canon and in it this book was mentioned with reference to words ascribed to Jesus, who after casting the demons out of a man is said to have said, "Behold, you have one greater than Solomon among you". And the documentary points out that Jesus and his audience must have been aware of this book for the reference to make its fullest sense. Barring putting these words into the mouth of Jesus by a later narrater for whom the book had become well known, we might want to put the writing of this work at least to the time of or before the life of Christ. Since the book is not in the Christian Canon I don't think this reference to Solomon after an exorcism was the work of someone in the second century. It appears that quote was kept but the book that explains why Jesus would make that reference to Solomon after casting out demons was not. So the quote makes me think the book pre-dates the first century at least. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.184.102.5 ( talk) 04:36, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Along with the negative presentation she is given in the Bible, the Testament of Solomon presents the Queen of Sheba as a witch, indicating that the author had an awareness of Jewish tradition, which had argued the same.
Where is the Queen of Sheba given a negative presentation in the Bible? Edgar ( talk) 14:05, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
I don't believe she is. She just came to talk to Solomon because he was so smart. Nothing in the canonical Christian Bible refers to her negatively. Gigasuperbunny ( talk) 05:33, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
What is the URL of that free PDF? It is required in order to verify one of the statements in the article. Some religion scholar ( talk) 07:22, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
The first sentence reads "The Testament of Solomon is a Old Testament pseudepigraphical work ascribed to King Solomon." in addition to the grammatical use of "an" before the word 'Old", I believe this is an incorrect statement. There is an Old Testament book called "Song Of Solomon" or "Song of Songs", but this book is not part of any Bible canon that I am aware of. Also, in the 'Dating and Authorship' section, it is written that " its original publication dates sometime between the 1st and 5th centuries". I do not believe any of the Old Testament books are this new. Can we re-word the sentence, and maybe use the word Apocryphal? Wcichello ( talk) 17:19, 17 May 2017 (UTC)