"The present volume presents papers which were given at an international symposium at Humboldt-universitat zu Berlin in September, 2011"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Bernd U. Schipper and D. Andrew Teeter -- The Blinded Eyes of the Wise: Sapiential Tradition and Mosaic Commandment in Deut 16:19–20 / Reinhard Müller -- Law and Wisdom according to Deut 4:5–8 / Thomas Krüger -- When Wisdom Is Not Enough! The Discourse on Wisdom and Torah and the Composition of the Book of Proverbs / Bernd U. Schipper -- Job in Conversation with the Torah / Markus Witte -- “Fear God and Keep His Commandments”: Could Qohelet Have Said This? / Stuart Weeks -- Yahweh’s Torah and the Praying “I” in Psalm 119 / Karin Finsterbusch -- Half Way between Psalm 119 and Ben Sira: Wisdom and Torah in Psalm 19 / Anja Klein -- Torah and Sapiential Pedagogy in the Book of Ben Sira / Benjamin G. Wright III -- “Wisdom” and “Torah” in the Book of Baruch / Sebastian Grätz -- Wisdom and Torah at Qumran: Evidence from the Sapiential Texts / William A. Tooman -- Torah, Wisdom, and the Composition of Rewritten Scripture: Jubilees and 11QPsa in Comparative Perspective / D. Andrew Teeter -- Rewriting Torah in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls / Reinhard G. Kratz -- Nόμος and Nόμοι in the Wisdom of Solomon / Joachim Schaper -- Afterword: Wisdom and Torah: Insights and Perspectives / Bernd U. Schipper -- Contributors -- Index of Primary Sources.

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A proper assessment of the manifold relationships that obtain between “wisdom” and “Torah” in the Second Temple Period has fascinated generations of interpreters. The essays of the present collection seek to understand this key relationship by focusing attention on specific instances of the reception of “Torah” in Wisdom literature and the shaping of Torah by wisdom. Taking the concepts of wisdom and torah in the various literary strata of the book of Deuteronomy as a point of departure, the remainder of the book examines the relationship between wisdom and Torah in Wisdom literature of the Second Temple period, including Proverbs, Qohelet, Ps 19 and 119, Baruch, Ben Sira, Wisdom, sapiential and rewritten scriptural texts from Qumran, and the Wisdom of Solomon.