Book of Wisdom

This article is about the Greek Jewish text. For the Druze texts, see Epistles of Wisdom.
"Wisdom of Solomon" redirects here. For Solomon's gift of wisdom, see Solomonic 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 central theme of the work is "wisdom" itself, appearing under two principal aspects. The first aspect is, in its relation to mankind, wisdom is the perfection of knowledge of the righteous as a gift from God showing itself in action. The second aspect is, in direct relation to God, wisdom is with God from all eternity.

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