The book of the Bible we know as the Wisdom of Solomon is a Jewish writing that has never been a part of the Jewish scriptures. It was accepted as scripture by important third-century Christian writers and became a part of the Bible in the Christian East and West.[1] At the English Reformation, it was placed apart from the books of the Old Testament which were known in the original Hebrew. These Greek-language pre-Christian texts in the Bible were called the Apocrypha—meaning “hidden things.” The Apocrypha was included as a separate group in all of the English language Bibles of the sixteenth century and in the King James Version at the beginning seventeenth century.[2]
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