God's Wisdom or the Devil's Envy: Death and Creation Deconstructing in The Wisdom of Solomon

Marie Turner

God's Wisdom or the Devil's Envy: Death and Creation Deconstructing in The Wisdom of Solomon
Format
Paperback
Publisher
ATF Press
Country
Australia
Published
31 December 2009
Pages
324
ISBN
9781921511578

God’s Wisdom or the Devil’s Envy: Death and Creation Deconstructing in The Wisdom of Solomon

Marie Turner

This book examines the Wisdom literature to form a reading of the text from Derrida. Attentive to contemporary evolutionary biology, Dr Marie Turner employs a form of deconstruction to uncover an authentic ecosensitive understanding of the Wisdom Literature and in partciular Wisdom 1:13 - ‘God did not make death’. She develops a theology of creation that integrates what previous readings of the book suggest are oppositions, namely: life and death, God and the devil, Death and Sophia, righteous and ungodly, human and non human creation. The results of her work are both provocative and reassuring. She has ably demonstrated how contemporary science can indeed throw light upon our multivalent religious tradition. Dr Marie Turner teaches Biblical Studies at Catholic Theological College, within the School of Theology at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia.

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