Resumen de The Mystery of Anointing: Hippolytus' Commentary on the Song of Songs in Social and Critical Contexts by Yancy Smith (review)
Dan. 1.17.2), and his references to post-baptismal anointing (a possible deduction from In Cant. 2.8–9), both indicate a Roman context. Since the evidence from this period for Easter baptism is so slender (the only reference besides the Comm. On the basis of his reading of key phrases in the Georgian text of In Cant., he would modify the proposal of J. A. Cerrato, that Hippolytus had Montanist affinities and advocated women’s “ordination” (Hippolytus between East and West: The Commentaries and the Provenance of the Corpus [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002], 203–18). How can one reconcile the claim that Solomon wrote thousands of proverbs and songs (1 Kings 5.12–13 [ET 4:32–33]) with the fact that only three (or four—so one Greek fragment!) of his books appear in the Bible? King Hezekiah’s friends wisely chose only some of Solomon’s proverbs for inclusion in the Bible (cf.
