that righteous man saw and heard as he lived among them, he was vexed in his righteous soul day after day with their lawless deeds)” (2:7–8). Such a description of Lot’s character hardly seems apt from the narrative of Gen 19. In Jewish tradition, however, Lot came to be portrayed as a righteous man. The author of Wisdom, in extolling the personified Wisdom’s deliverance of the righteous from judgment, refers not only to Noah but also to Lot: Wisdom rescued a righteous man when the ungodly were perishing;