• 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...
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    Alphabet of Sirach, was falsely attributed to him. In the Koine Greek text of the Book of Sirach, the author's father is called "Jesus the son of Sirach of Jerusalem"...
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    Middle Ages inspired by the Book of Sirach and written in a Muslim country between 700 and 1000. It is a compilation of two lists of proverbs, 22 in Jewish...
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    Songs (Song of Solomon), Job, and Sirach. It is one of the deuterocanonical books, i.e. it is included in the canons of the Catholic Church and the Eastern...
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    The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch; Hebrew: סֵפֶר חֲנוֹךְ, Sēfer Ḥănōḵ; Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ, Maṣḥafa Hēnok) is an ancient Hebrew apocalyptic religious text,...
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    parallels with later works; the Book of Daniel and the Book of Sirach. Many scholars have noted that the restoration of worship in the Jerusalem Temple...
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    The Book of Tobit (/ˈtoʊbɪt/), also known as the Book of Tobias, is a 3rd or early 2nd century BC work describing how God tests the faithful, responds...
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    The Book of Jubilees, sometimes called Lesser Genesis or Leptogenesis, is an ancient Jewish apocryphal text of 50 chapters (1341 verses), considered canonical...
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    The Book of Esther (Hebrew: מְגִלַּת אֶסְתֵּר, romanized: Megillat Esther; Greek: Ἐσθήρ; Latin: Liber Esther), also known in Hebrew as "the Scroll" ("the...
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    The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible but...
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    Book of Samuel; it is also mentioned in the deuterocanonical Book of Sirach. The woman of the story is called in Biblical Hebrew אֵשֶׁת בַּעֲלַת־אֹוב בְּעֵין...
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    Simon II (High Priest) (category 3rd-century BCE High Priests of Israel)
    50 of the Book of Sirach in a hymn of Hebrew parallel verse: The leader of his brothers and the pride of his people was the high priest, Simon son of Onias...
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    Nehemiah (category Book of Numbers people)
    central figure of the Book of Nehemiah, which describes his work in rebuilding Jerusalem during the Second Temple period. He was governor of Persian Judea...
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    writers" who have made this observation. The Jewish deuterocanonical Book of Sirach states that "whoever touches pitch gets dirty, and whoever associates...
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  • the book must also be later than 515 BC. Malachi was apparently known to the author of the Book of Sirach early in the second century BC. Because of the...
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    High Priest of Israel) and in the Book of Sirach 46:19, in relation to Samuel, prophet and institutor of the kingdom under Saul. At the time of Jesus, there...
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  • polemical work Against Apion, 198–210, and the deutero-canonical Jewish Book of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus, 7:18–36. More recent research on social behaviour...
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  • (equivalent to English Jesus Son of Sirach), alternate name of Ben Sira, the 2nd century BCE author of the Book of Sirach Ilan Yeshua (fl. 2000s), business...
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    references to the "Law and the Prophets" in the Book of Sirach, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the New Testament. The Book of Daniel, written c. 164 BCE, was not grouped...
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  • The Third Book of Enoch (Hebrew: ספר חנוך לר׳ ישמעאל כ׳׳ג‬), also known as The Book of the Palaces, The Book of Rabbi Ishmael the High Priest and The...
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  • Wisdom of Solomon, the Wisdom of Sirach, Judith and Tobit), the book of Esther and also the Didache and The Shepherd of Hermas, while not being part of the...
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  • (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195288803. Snaith, John (2003). "Sirach". In Dunn, James D. G.; Rogerson, John William (eds.). Eerdmans Commentary...
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    apocalyptic book in some English versions of the Bible. Tradition ascribes it to Ezra, a scribe and priest of the fifth century BC, whom the book identifies...
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  • known as the First Book of Maccabees, First Maccabees, and abbreviated as 1 Macc., is a deuterocanonical book which details the history of the Maccabean Revolt...
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  • (חזיונות הסיבילות) Sirach (בן סירא) Testament of Abraham (צוואת אברהם) Testament of Job (דברי איוב) Testament of Qahat (צוואת קהת) Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs...
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  • Septuagint, the Ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible completed by 132 BC. Likewise, the book of Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus), also written in the...
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    giver of a garland: "She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown." In the deutercanonical Book of Sirach, the...
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    manifestation of a person's faith, thus their behaviour and their works. A similar illustration appears in the deuterocanonical Book of Sirach: [As] fruit...
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  • the Second Book of Maccabees, Second Maccabees, and abbreviated as 2 Macc., is a deuterocanonical book which recounts the persecution of Jews under King...
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    Elijah (redirect from Mantle of Prophecy)
    him a harbinger of the Messiah and of the eschaton in various faiths that revere the Hebrew Bible. References to Elijah appear in Sirach, the New Testament...
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