Book of Wisdom
Jewish work written in Greek generally dated to the mid-first century BC
Book of Wisdom
The Book of Wisdom, also known as the Wisdom of Solomon, is a book in some Christian biblical canons. It is one of the seven sapiential—or wisdom—books in the Septuagint, the others being the Psalms, the Book of Proverbs, the book of Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs (Song of Solomon), the Book of Job, and the Wisdom of Sirach. Wisdom is one of the deuterocanonical books (i.e., it is included in the canons of the major non-Protestant Christian churches). Most forms of Protestantism consider Wisdom part of the biblical apocrypha, and it is not included in the Rabbinic Jewish canon. While not included in the Hebrew Bible, it found early reception in the Septuagint and Old Latin tradition and was known to some of the early Christian New Testament writers. It was composed in Greek by an Alexandrian Jewish author. Most scholars date it to the first century BC on the basis of its themes and concerns, though a minority have proposed dates spanning from the reign of Solomon to that of Caligula. The...
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