Samuel L. Adams is the Mary Jane and John F. McNair Chair of Biblical Studies at Union Presbyterian Seminary. He received his PhD from Yale University in 2006. He is the author of monographs on wisdom literature and economics in the biblical world, and editor of the journal Interpretation. Matthew Goff is Professor in the Department of Religion at Florida State University. His research focuses on the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism. He has written extensively on the sapiential and apocalyptic literature of ancient Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiiiAbbreviations xivEditors’ Introduction 1Samuel L. Adams and Matthew GoffI. Texts 111 Proverbs 13Jacqueline Vayntrub2 Job 30Davis Hankins3 Ecclesiastes 49Jennie Grillo4 Psalms 67William P. Brown5 Sirach/Ben Sira 87Bradley C. Gregory6 Wisdom of Solomon 104Randall D. Chesnutt7 Wisdom Texts From the Dead Sea Scrolls 122Elisa Uusimäki8 Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes in the Septuagint (LXX) 139Patrick PouchelleII. Themes 1579 The Figure of Solomon 159Blake A. Jurgens10 Female Imagery in Wisdom Literature 177Tova Forti11 Scribes and Pedagogy in Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism 195Matthew Goff12 God in Wisdom Literature 213James L. Crenshaw13 Jewish Wisdom in the Contest of Hellenistic Philosophy and Culture: Pseudo‐Phocylides and Philo of Alexandria 229Michael Cover14 Wisdom and Apocalypticism 248Jason M. Zurawski15 The Orality of Wisdom Literature 267Timothy J. SandovalIII. Antecedents 28716 Ahiqar and Other Legendary Sages 289Seth A. Bledsoe17 Wisdom Literature in Egypt 310Samuel L. Adams18 Mesopotamian Wisdom 328Nili SametIV. Reception 34919 Wisdom in the New Testament 351Benjamin Wold20 Wisdom and the Rabbis 368Ari Mermelstein21 The Wisdom Tradition in Early Christianity through Late Antiquity 389Carson Bay22 Jewish Sapiential Traditions in the Nag Hammadi Library 412Dylan M. Burns23 The Sapiential Books in the Latin Middle Ages 429Gilbert Dahan24 The Reception History of Job 447Mark Larrimore25 Wisdom from African Proverbs Meets Wisdom from the Book of Proverbs 464Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan’a Mphahlele)26 Cinematic Wisdom: Film and Biblical Wisdom Literature 479Matthew S. RindgeIndex 496

“…a strength of this volume is its breadth, and readers who are looking for an introduction to wisdom in the Hellenistic period and beyond will welcome this volume.” – Lance Hawley for Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, 2021, Vol. 75(3) 252–271