But even before, in Genesis 2–3, sapiential motifs appear,120 although discreetly. The Paradise story, with its constant play on words, shows a high degree of literary חכמה. In view of the identification of the Tree of Life with wisdom in Proverbs, one can see in the trees of Genesis the antithesis of the false wisdom of autonomy and the true wisdom which leads to life, in dependence on God. And one could cite also the biography of Joseph, the Godfearing (Gn. 42:18) Model of the wise, to confirm