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...
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Book of Sirach (redirect from Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira)
196 and 175 BCE by Yeshua ben Eleazar ben Sira (Ben Sira), a Hellenistic Jewish scribe of the Second Temple period. Ben Sira's grandson translated the text...
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Alphabet of Sirach (redirect from Alphabet of Ben Sira)
The Alphabet of Sira (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אלפא-ביתא דבן סירא, romanized: Alpā-Bethā də-Ben Sirā) is an anonymous text of the Middle Ages inspired...
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Lilith (section Alphabet of Ben Sira)
ISBN 978-0-511-79285-4. The attribution to the sage Ben Sira is considered false, with the true author unknown. "BEN SIRA, ALPHABET OF - JewishEncyclopedia.com"....
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ἐγένετο κατὰ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ μέγας ἐπὶ σωτηρίᾳ ἐκλεκτῶν αὐτοῦ) (Ben Sira 46:1–2). However, Ben Sira originally wrote in Hebrew in the second century BC, and...
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the flocking behavior of birds is found in the second century BC, where Ben Sira uses it in his apocryphal Biblical Book of Ecclesiasticus, written about...
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the Law; he died and was buried like any other mortal (ib. xxxiv. 5–6). Ben Sira was probably the first to compare him with the angels—a suggestion from...
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Lilith that most are familiar with is the wife of Adam in the Alphabet of Ben Sira (8th to 10th centuries CE), known as Adam haRishon, "the first man", among...
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Yeshua may also refer to: Yeshua ben Sira, ישוע בן סירא (equivalent to English Jesus Son of Sirach), alternate name of Ben Sira, the 2nd century BCE author...
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David Kohn (section Edition of Ben Sira)
he made an edition of the discovered Hebrew Text of the Wisdom Book of Ben Sira in Hebrew with introduction, a good reconstruction of the lost parts and...
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