Editing Testament of Solomon (section)

== Dating and authorship ==
Scholarly opinion on when the Testament of Solomon was written varies widely. Suggested dates for its composition range between the end of the 1st century AD and the [[High Middle Ages]].<ref name=autogenerated2 /><ref name=autogenerated1 /> Also disputed is whether it had a Christian or Jewish origin. Mid-twentieth century scholarship tended to agree that much of its content "reflects the first-century Judaism in Israel" and includes material much earlier than its composition.<ref name="Dvoracek">{{cite book |last1=Dvoracek |first1=Jiri |title=The Son of David in Matthew's Gospel in the Light of the Solomon as Exorcist Tradition |date=2016 |publisher=Mohr Siebeck |isbn=9783161540943 |page=51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ccWf9vF5hToC&q=%22testament+of+solomon%22+century&pg=PA51 |access-date=6 March 2019 }}</ref>
However, scholars both before (e.g., Istrin)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100874249|title=Zami͡echanīi͡a o sostavi͡e tolkovoĭ paleĭ.|last=Istrin|first=V. M.|date=1897–1898|publisher=Tip Imp. Akad. nauk|series=Sbornik Otdi͡elenīi͡a russkago i͡azyka i slovesnosti Imperatorskoĭ akademīi nauk ;t. 2 kn.1 i 4, t.3, kn.2|location=Sanktpeterburg}}</ref> and after (e.g., Schwarz)<ref name=autogenerated2 /> proposed other solutions based upon the varied manuscript evidence. Because of the text's various forms, produced over centuries by distinct scribes, the author or authors of the text remain unknown. The text was originally written in [[ancient Greek|Greek]] and contains numerous theological and magical themes ranging from [[Christianity]] and [[Judaism]] to [[Greek mythology]] and [[astrology]] that possibly hint at a [[Christians|Christian]] writer with a Greek background.