In early December 2019 an international symposium was held at Trinity College Dublin on the theme: Jewish Wisdom from the Judean Wilderness to Diaspora.¹ The present September 2020 edition of the Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha and the next one in December 2020 contain an ample selection of the papers which were presented and discussed on that occasion. We are deeply grateful to Matthias Henze, the general editor of the Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, for his support and invaluable guidance in the production of these two thematic editions. At the heart of the symposium was the problematic differentiation between the sapiential traditions found among the Dead Sea Scrolls and Hellenistic Jewish traditions. Is it always the case that philosophical issues found in the texts discovered at Qumran radically differ from those found in texts originating within the Greek Jewish traditions? Across early Jewish sapiential literature is concern to frame, one way or another, views on universalism and particularism, which is typically done in relationship to the created order and wisdom instruction. However, if we turn to scholarship from the 1990s and earlier it is common place to find views to the contrary with examples of summaries about the “the Dead Sea Scrolls” as being uninterested in natural law and unconcerned for philosophical questions as found in Hellenistic Jewish writings.² We may ask whether it is indeed the case that the sapiential traditions found at Qumran are universally focused on the study of Mosaic Torah without regard for more theoretical ethics from creation. The contributions to the discussion found here focus in different ways on the topic of continuity between Jewish compositions found in Judea and Hellenistic Jewish ones. The main lines of inquiry include, but are not limited to, questions about early Jewish wisdom as composed inside or outside Judea, whether an author was concerned with Israel or not, and what other expressions indicate participation in Greek culture.

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2019年12月上旬，在都柏林三一学院举行了一次国际专题讨论会，主题为：从犹太人的荒野到散居的犹太智慧。¹当前的《伪文献研究杂志》 2020年9月版和2020年12月的下一版载有大量的论文选集，并在那次会议上进行了讨论。我们深表感谢伪古迹研究杂志的总编辑马蒂亚斯·亨泽（Matthias Henze），以感谢他在制作这两个主题版本中的支持和宝贵指导。专题讨论会的核心是死海古卷中发现的智慧传统与希腊化的犹太传统之间的问题性区分。在库姆兰发现的文献中发现的哲学问题是否总是与在希腊犹太传统中产生的哲学问题根本不同？在早期的犹太智慧文学中，人们普遍以一种或另一种方式构架关于普遍主义和特殊主义的观点，这通常是与所建立的秩序和智慧指导联系起来的。然而，²我们可能会问，是否确实存在这样一种情况，即在昆兰发现的智慧传统普遍地集中于对摩西摩西律法的研究，而不考虑创造中更多的理论伦理。这里讨论的内容以不同的方式集中在犹太教和希腊化犹太教之间的连续性问题上。调查的主要内容包括（但不限于）以下问题：犹太人内部或外部所构筑的早期犹太智慧，作者是否与以色列有关，以及其他表达方式是否暗示了对希腊文化的参与。