While claiming 2 Maccabees 7 teaches creation ex nihilo, Catholic priest James Chukwuma Okoye would also claim that the Wisdom of Solomon teaches creation ex materia:
Creation out of matter was still
taught in Wis 11:17, a Hellenistic Jewish text of the first century BCE, which
says, “Not without means was your almighty hand, that had fashioned the
universe from formless matter.” (James Chukwuma Okoye, Genesis 1-11: A Narrative-Theological
Commentary [2d ed.; Eugene, Oreg.: Cascade Books, 2025], 49)
