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Jesus Ben Sirach 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Ben Sira or Joshua ben Sirach (Hebrew: שמעון בן יהושע בן אליעזר בן סירא, romanized: šimʿon ben yəhošuʿ ben ʾəliʿezer ben Sirā) (fl. 2nd century BCE) was a Hellenistic Jewish scribe, sage, and allegorist from Seleucid-controlled Jerusalem of the Second Temple period. He is the author of the Book of Sirach, also known as "Ecclesiasticus".
Ben Sirach wrote his work in Hebrew, possibly in Alexandria in the Ptolemaic Kingdom c. 180–175 BCE, where he is thought to have established a school.[1]
While Ben Sira is sometimes claimed to be a contemporary of Simeon the Just, it is more likely that his contemporary was High Priest Simon II (219–199 BCE) and this is due to confusion with his father, Joshua.[2]
A medieval text, the Alphabet of Sirach, was falsely attributed to him.
^See Guillaume, Philippe, New Light on the Nebiim from Alexandria: A Chronography to Replace the Deuteronomistic History. PDF Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 5.9 (2004): sections 3–5: full notes and bibliography
^אנציקלופדיה יהודית דעת – בן סירא. Jewish Encyclopedia Daat (in Hebrew). Herzog College. Retrieved 2013-09-06.
BenSira or Joshua ben Sirach (Hebrew: שמעון בן יהושע בן אליעזר בן סירא, romanized: šimʿon ben yəhošuʿ ben ʾəliʿezer benSirā) (fl. 2nd century BCE) was...
The Book of Sirach (/ˈsaɪræk/, Hebrew: ספר בן-סירא, romanized: Sēper ben-Sîrāʾ), also known as The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus...
(Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אלפא-ביתא דבן סירא, romanized: Alpā-Bethā də-BenSirā) is an anonymous text of the Middle Ages inspired by the Book of Sirach...
ISBN 978-0-511-79285-4. The attribution to the sage BenSira is considered false, with the true author unknown. "BENSIRA, ALPHABET OF - JewishEncyclopedia.com"....
ἐγένετο κατὰ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ μέγας ἐπὶ σωτηρίᾳ ἐκλεκτῶν αὐτοῦ) (BenSira 46:1–2). However, BenSira originally wrote in Hebrew in the second century BC, and...
the flocking behavior of birds is found in the second century BC, where BenSira uses it in his apocryphal Biblical Book of Ecclesiasticus, written about...
Conflict as noted by August Dillmann. In the Jewish book The Alphabet of Ben-Sira, Eve is Adam's "second wife", where Lilith is his first. In this alternate...
Géza Xeravits; József Zsengellér (25 June 2008). Studies in the Book of BenSira: Papers of the Third International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books...
Human Beings (Library of Congress) The Story of Lilith in The Alphabet of BenSira Islamic view of the fall of Adam (audio) 98 classical images of Adam and...
mystical treatise Zohar and the medieval Jewish satirical text Alphabet of BenSira, Lilith was Adam's first wife, who later became a succubus. She left Adam...
he made an edition of the discovered Hebrew Text of the Wisdom Book of BenSira in Hebrew with introduction, a good reconstruction of the lost parts and...
Zerubbabel on the other hand. The early 2nd-century BCE Jewish author BenSira praises Nehemiah, but makes no mention of Ezra. Richard Friedman argues...
list of names, some scholars have conjectured that the author, Yeshua benSira, had access to, and considered authoritative, the books of Genesis, Exodus...
anagignoskomena are Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom of Jesus benSira (Sirach), Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah (in the Vulgate this is chapter 6...
Blessed Trinity, bringing him in communion with intra-trinitarian life. BenSira taught about lay people that "without these cannot a city be inhabited...
vowelized, and both of them incorporate parts of the original Hebrew for BenSira that were found in the Cairo Geniza and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Avraham Kahana...
genuinely original work including BenSira, Tobit, Judith, 1 Enoch and, much later, Maccabees. The literature from BenSira onwards is increasingly permeated...
hammidrash) is found in the mid-Hellenistic period (2nd cent. BC) in the book of BenSira (51:23). However, the writing of the Bible as well as the variety of inscriptional...
circumstances of their survival were as follows. Yaacov Edelstein and Yitzhak Ben-Sira tried to hide amongst a jumble of boulders and branches, but they were...
ISBN 978-1-83982-827-0, S2CID 238706123, retrieved 2021-09-27 Zeev Ben-Sira (1997). Immigration, Stress, and Readjustment. Greenwood. pp. 7–10. ISBN 9780275956325...
latest possible date for its composition is 180 BCE, when the Jewish writer BenSira quotes from it. The dispute as to whether Ecclesiastes belongs to the Persian...
render the hands unclean" (M. Yadayim 3.5). Of the apocryphal books, only BenSira is mentioned by name in rabbinic sources and it continued to be circulated...
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