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The Wisdom of Ben Sira: A New Translation with Notes and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Wisdom of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) contains the sayings of Ben Sira, arguably the last of Israel’s wise men and its first scribe, whose world was defined and dominated by Greek ideas and ideals. This Hellenistic worldview challenged the adequacy of the religion passed down to Palestinian Jews of the second century B.C.E. by their ancestors. Ben Sira’s training in both Judaic and Hellenistic...

Lat reads thesauri magni pretiosi (some MSS: magni et pretiosi; others: pretiosi et magni); one MS (Z*) has thesauri pretiosi, which supports MS Bmg. 13a.=[t]ôbat ḥay mispar yāmîm, so M and MS Bmg; Btxt, yĕmê mispār. This section contains five poems: (1) 40:1–10 (thirteen bicola); (2) 40:11–17 (seven bicola); (3) 40:18–27 (twelve bicola); (4) 40:28–41:4 (eleven bicola); and (5) 41:5–13 (ten bicola). The first two poems (twenty bicola) have a pronounced pessimistic tone that contrasts
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