Antecedenti veterotestamentari di una mariologia politica

Abstract

First published in La politica del Magnificat. Questioni di mariologia politica («Politica e Religione», 2014), pp. 35-57.

This paper sets out to identify possible cultural links between the Old Testament and successive developments in Mariology, and the latter’s political valence. If we consider the figure of Mary globally, she seems to have few antecedents in the Old Testament, although there are, of course, clear parallels between her and certain Old Testament women. The figure of “wisdom”, however, appears to have greater significance: to show this, the paper moves from an analysis of Pr 8.15-16 to two other texts, one on wisdom and the creation (Pr 8.2-31), the other on wisdom in connection with the religious institutions (Sir 24, 23); both the ideal underpinning these institutions and their ambiguous political realities are investigated.