“... Second Temple literature affirms the Genesis 3 story. For example, its retelling in Jubilees 3 follows the Old Testament very closely. The account in the Sibylline Oracles (1:55) has the serpent as ‘the cause of the deceit.’ In the Wisdom of Solomon (Wisdom), readers learn that ‘by the envy of the devil death entered into the world, And they that belong to his realm experience it’ (Wisdom 2:24). Brown affirms the straightforward implication of passage: ‘The Wisdom of Solomon implies that the devil was responsible for the introduction of evil into the world.’ Sacchi notes: Even if in the book of Wisdom the serpent is never named, the affirmation that God did not create death (1:14) and that this entered the world only by the work of the devil (2:24) can only be explained by thinking of a reference to the Eden story and the disobedience of Adam. In the book of Wisdom the devil remains only as the cause of death, which is the evil par excellence. ...