As a commemorative gift for the 65^th birthday celebration of the Salzburgian Old Testament scholar Friedrich V. Reiterer, whose research on Biblical wisdom literature has been devoted primarily to the book of Ben Sira, his colleagues and students presented him with this bouquet of studies related to Professor Reiterer's areas of interest. In addition to Ben Sira, these studies examine the part played by Wisdom in subsequent Late-Biblical texts, and in intertestamental and New Testament texts.

Renate Egger-Wenzel, Universität Salzburg, Österreich; Karin Schöpflin, Universität Göttingen; Johannes Friedrich Diehl, Universität Frankfurt am Main.