Wisdom

Chapters

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5
6. 6
7. 7
8. 8
9. 9
10. 10
11. 11
12. 12
13. 13
14. 14
15. 15
16. 16
17. 17
18. 18
19. 19

In the maps

• Wisdom 2:24

  Genesis calls the tempter only 'the serpent'; the Book of Wisdom, written before Christ, names him the devil. Pitre uses this (with the Life of Adam and Eve) to show that first-century Jews already read Genesis 3 as the devil's assault on the woman (p 25). That is the bridge to Revelation 12:9, where the dragon is 'that ancient serpent, called the Devil and Satan,' at war with the Woman.