The Wisdom of Solomon was included in the Septuagint, the Greek Bible of Hellenistic Judaism, but not in the Hebrew canon fixed by the rabbis. This divergence determined its later fate. The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, following the Greek and Latin tradition, receive it as deuterocanonical, fully part of Scripture, whereas Judaism and, at the Reformation, the Protestant churches placed it among the Apocrypha, valued but not canonical.
The book was well known in early Christianity: its portrait of personified Wisdom contributed to Christian reflection on Christ as the Wisdom and Word of God, and its language about the righteous sufferer and about immortality left marks on the New Testament and on later theology. Its influence on the doctrine of the soul's immortality, and on the fusion of biblical faith with Greek philosophical categories, was considerable.
Modern scholarship values it both as a high point of Hellenistic Jewish literature and as an important witness to the ways Second Temple Judaism engaged the wider intellectual world, and it continues to be read liturgically in the Catholic and Orthodox churches and studied across the traditions as part of the biblical Apocrypha.