Since 1990 Roland Murphy's <em>Tree of Life</em> has been a standard introduction to the wisdom literature of the Bible. Now <em>The Tree of Life</em> is available in a third edition, complete with a new preface by the author and a special supplement that surveys the latest developments in wisdom research.<br/><br/>This superb study thoroughly explores the wisdom writings of the Bible, interpreting this literature in a way that illumines the development of Israel's search for wisdom throughout its tumultuous history. Murphy looks at each wisdom book individually -- Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Ecclesiasticus, and Wisdom of Solomon -- and adds to them a discussion of wisdom from other parts of the Old Testament. His careful investigations expose the various guises that wisdom adopts -- the "fear of the Lord," moral formation, the universality of human experience, the mysteries of creation, and others.