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Testament of Solomon
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The Testament of Solomon is an anonymous Greek text presenting Solomon as compelling demons to name themselves, describe the afflictions they cause and labor on the building of the Temple, and this record states the same honest limit as the text's own scholarship: no single date is established, with proposals ranging from the first to the fifth century and clear evidence of later Christian reworking layered onto an older core. As a primary text it is authoritative for what it itself narrates, the demon catalogue and the Solomonic frame later grimoires inherit and elaborate, not for a settled account of its own composition history, which remains genuinely unresolved. Use it to establish the content of this specific ancestor text and its Solomonic demon-naming frame; a claim about its date, authorship or place within early Jewish or Christian pseudepigrapha needs a dedicated critical study of the pseudepigrapha addressing that question, since this record does not resolve it.
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An anonymous Greek text of disputed date presenting Solomon compelling demons to labor on the Temple, cited as the tradition's own foundational Solomonic narrative rather than as independent evidence for the events it describes. NotesPublicationYear left NULL deliberately: the date is genuinely disputed, with proposals ranging across the first to fifth centuries and later Christian reworking evident. A Greek text built on Solomon compelling demons to name themselves and to labour on the Temple, and the principal ancestor of the Solomonic frame the grimoires inherit.
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This source names Solomon directly: "narrates, the demon catalogue and the Solomonic frame later grimoires inherit and elaborate, not for a settled account of its own composition history, which remains genuinely unresolved."
Claims Backed By This Source (8 claims)
This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Goetic Demons, 2 claims: 2 general references.
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