might come to know the Torah and perhaps also to live by the Torah. We are not exaggerating, then, in referring to this enterprise as a new step in the history of evangelization. A second aspect of this newness is a fresh approach to wisdom: It places this subject explicitly and coherently into the history of salvation. Unlike Proverbs and Job, which in different ways explore the paths of wisdom with only a passing attention (if any at all) to the Torah and salvation history, in Sirach we detect