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The Book of Sirach (/ ˈ s aɪ r æ k /) [a], also known as The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach [1], The Wisdom of Jesus son of Eleazar [2] or Ecclesiasticus (/ ɪ ˌ k l iː z i ˈ æ s t ɪ k ə s /), [3] is a Jewish literary work, originally written in Biblical Hebrew.
These are the books of the King James Version of the Bible along with the names and numbers given them in the Douay Rheims Bible and Latin Vulgate. This list is a complement to the list in Books of the Latin Vulgate. It is an aid to finding cross references between two longstanding standards of biblical literature.
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.
The Sapiential Books or "Books of Wisdom" is a term used in biblical studies to refer to a subset of the books of the Jewish Bible in the Septuagint version. There are seven of these books, namely the books of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Book of Wisdom, the Song of Songs (Song of Solomon), and Sirach. Not all the Psalms are usually ...
"Their name liveth for evermore" is a phrase from the Jewish book of Ecclesiasticus or Sirach, chapter 44, verse 14, widely inscribed on war memorials since the First World War. [ 1 ] In full, verse 14 reads "Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore."
The dating of the Book of Sirach is known with unusual precision compared to other contemporary books. A prologue written to the Greek translation is by someone who says that they are the grandson of Jesus ben Sira who arrived in Egypt in the thirty-eighth year of King Euergetes ( Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II Tryphon , also known as "Physcon"), or ...
The Book of Sirach, also known as Ecclesiasticus, contains significant references to Chokmah. In chapter 24, Wisdom speaks about her origins, role in creation, and dwelling among the people of Israel. Verses 13-17, often referred to as the "Riddling List of Ecclesiasticus", use a series of trees to describe Wisdom: [19]
Over a millennium later, Martin Luther included the prayer in his 74-book translation of the Bible into German. It was part of the 1537 Matthew Bible , and the 1599 Geneva Bible . It also appears in the Apocrypha of the 1611 King James Bible and of the original 1609/1610 Douai-Rheims Bible .