Book of Wisdom The Book of Wisdom, often referred to simply as
Wisdom or the Book of the Wisdom of Solomon, is one of the books
of the Bible, which are called deuterocanonical by the Roman
Catholic Church or apocryphal by others. It is one of the seven
Sapiential or wisdom books of bound with the Septuagint, along
with Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon (Song
of Songs), and Sirach. Some opine that Melito of Sardis in the
2nd century AD, considered Wisdom of Solomon as part of the Old
Testament (without necessarily using the term "canonical"). Some
may opine that it was considered canonical by Jews and
Christians. On the other hand the contrary claim has been made:
"In the catalogue of Melito, presented by Eusebius, after
Proverbs, the word Wisdom occurs, which nearly all commentators
have been of opinion is only another name for the same book, and
not the name of the book now called 'The Wisdom of Solomon'." A
Hebrew translation of the Wisdom of Solomon is mentioned by
Naḥmanides in the pref