§ 10. BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chief Editions of the Text:—

(a) Of the Hebrew Fragments: Schechter, Ecclesiasticus 39:15–40:8 in The Expositor, July, 1896; Cowley-Neubauer, The original Hebrew of a portion of Ecclesiasticus (39:15–49:11) together with the early versions, and an English translation and introduction (Oxford, 1897) (cited as ‘Cowley-Neub.’); Halévy edited the same text in Rev. Sém. 5:148, 193, 383; I. Lévi, L’Ecclésiastique, Part I (containing 39:15–49:11) (Paris, 1898); Part II (containing all the rest of the recovered Hebrew text) (Paris, 1901): a very full and valuable text, translation, and commentary; Schechter (edition of 49:12–50:22.) in JQR, 10:197; Schechter and Taylor, The Wisdom of Ben-Sira (containing text of parts of 3–16, 30–33, 35–38, 49–51, with commentary, notes, introduction, &c.) (Cambridge, 1899) (cited as WBS); Halévy edited 49:12–50:22 in the Rev. Sém. 7:214–220; G. Margoliouth published, with notes, text of 31:12–31 and 36:22–37:26 in JQR, 12:1–33; Schechter published A further fragment of Ben-Sira (containing 4:23–5:13, 25:8–26:2) in JQR, 12:456–465; Eikon Adler edited and published Some missing fragments of Ben-Sira (containing 7:29–12:1) in JQR, 12:466–480; Lévi published Deux nouveaux manuscrits hébreux de l’Ecclésiastique (containing a new text of 36:24–38:1 and a series of selections, 6:18, 19, 28:35, 7:1, 4, 6, 17, 20, 21, 23, 25) in the Revue des Éludes Juives (RÉJ), 11:1–30; finally Gaster edited and published A new Fragment of Ben-Sira (containing 18:31–33, 19:1–2, 20:5–7, 27:19, 22, 24, 26, and 20:13) in JQR, 22:688–702. Facsimiles of the fragments hitherto recovered of the Hebrew text (of Ecclesiasticus) were published by the Oxford and Cambridge Presses in 1901. Editions of the complete (Hebrew) text (so far as recovered) have been published by Knabenbauer (Paris, 1902), with a valuable commentary, Peters (Freiburg, 1902), Strack (Leipzig, 1903); Lévi, The Hebrew text of the Book of Ecclesiasticus, with brief notes and a selected glossary (Leyden, 1904, in Semitic Study Series); Peters, Ecclesiasticus Hebraice (pointed Hebrew text and Latin translation on opposite pages; Freiburg, 1905); and Smend, Die Weisheit des Jesus Sirach, containing critically reconstructed Hebrew text, German translation covering the entire book (based on critical text), an elaborate commentary and index (Greek, Syriac, Hebrew): 3 vols., Berlin, 1906–7.

(b) Of the Ancient Versions. Important editions of the Greek text by Fritzsche (Libri Apocryphi Veteris Testamenti Graece, Leipzic, 1871); Holmes and Parsons (Oxford, 1827); Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, vol. 3 (Cambridge, 1891); of Codex 248 (with a valuable textual commentary and prolegomena) by J. H. A. Hart (Ecclesiasticus in Greek, Cambridge, 1909). Of the Syriac text (Peshitta): Lagarde, Libri Veteris Testamenti Apocryphi Syriace (Leipzig, 1871); Ceriani, Translatio Syra Pescito Vet. Test. ex codice Ambrosiano (Milan, 1876–1883); of the Syro-Hexaplar, Ceriani, Codex Syro-Hexaplaris Ambrosianus photolithographice editus (Milan, 1874): of the Old Latin, the various editions of the Vulgate; text of Codex Amiatinus, by Lagarde, in his Mitteilungen I (1884); of the Ethiopic, Dillmann, Biblia Vet. Test. Aethioipice, 5 (1894): see further the introductions in the commentaries of Smend and Peters (cited above).

Commentaries and Critical Discussions:—

(a) Commentaries: Fritzsche, Die Weisheit Jesus Sirach’s erklärt und übersetzt (Leipzig, 1859); Edersheim in Wace’s Apocrypha, vol. 2 (London, 1888); Ryssel in Kautzsch’s Apokryphen, vol. 1 (Tübingen, 1900); Oesterley in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (1912); the commentaries of Knabenbauer, Peters, Lévi, and Smend referred to above.

(b) Critical and General Discussions: Herkenne, De Veteris Latini Ecclesiastici, &c. (Leipzig, 1899); Peters, Die sahidisch-koptische Uebersetzung des Buches Ecclesiasticus (Freiburg, 1898): A. Fucks, Textkritische Untersuchungen zum hebräischen Ekklesiastikus (Freiburg, 1907); Perles, Notes critiques sur le texte de l’Ecclésiastique in RÉJ, 35:48–64; Schechter and Taylor in WBS Taylor, The Wisdom of Ben-Sira in JQR, 15:440–474 and 604–626 (valuable for criticism of text); Gfrörer, Philo, 2:18–52 (Stuttgart, 1831); Cheyne, Job and Solomon, pp. 179–198 (London, 1887); Drummond, Philo Judaeus, 1, pp. 144–155 (London, 1888); D. S. Margoliouth, An Essay on the Place of Ecclesiasticus in Semitic Literature (Oxford, 1890); and (by the same) The Language and Metre of Ecclesiasticus in The Expositor (1890), pp. 295–320, 381–391 [on the literature of the controversy about the genuineness of the Hebrew Fragments see Schürer, GJV3, 3:223]. Passages from Sirach, translated [into German] and explained, are included in the volume (of the series Die Schriften des Alten Testaments) entitled Weisheit, by P. Volz (Göttingen, 1911). See also the articles Sirach in HDB (by Nestle), in JE (by I. Lévi), and the articles Ecclesiasticus and Sirach in EB (by Toy), with the literature cited. For a full bibliography see Schürer, GJV3, 3. pp. 219–228 (brought up to 1909); in the ET of Schürer, HJP (1891), vol. v, pp. 27–30 (necessarily far from complete).