| Title: | Le chevalier, la femme et le diable. Les gemmes magiques et le testament de Salomon |
| Author: | Ștefan Colceriu |
| Publication: | Diversité et identité culturelle en Europe, VII (1), p. 41 |
| p-ISSN: | 2067-0931 |
| Publisher: | Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Abstract: | Fifty six magical gemstones discovered in Egypt and dating from the 3rd century CE represent Solomon as a triumphant horse rider piercing and killing by his lance a lying female demon, probably the famous Lilith. It is now agreed that the gemstones were used for banishing the child-killing demon and worn by pregnant women. The Testament of Solomon, a biblical pseudepigraphon from the Late Antiquity also mentions an avatar of the child-killing demon, namely Obyzuth. The present paper shows that the author of the Testament was highly aware of the existence of the gemstones, but changed in a subtle way their initial message out of polemical reasons. The connection between the gemstones and the Testament is also very valuable as a means of dating the controversial pseudepigraphon in the last decades of the 4th century CE. |
| Key words: | Gemstones, Egypt, Solomon, Lilith, Testament of Solomon, horse, triumph |
| Language: | French |
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