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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Géza Xeravits; József Zsengellér (25 June 2008). Studies in the Book of Ben Sira: Papers of the Third International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books...
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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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    Conflict as noted by August Dillmann. In the Jewish book The Alphabet of Ben-Sira, Eve is Adam's "second wife", where Lilith is his first. In this alternate...
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    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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    mystical treatise Zohar and the medieval Jewish satirical text Alphabet of Ben Sira, Lilith was Adam's first wife, who later became a succubus. She left Adam...
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  • Tzipi Mor as 1st Maid Firat Kanter as 2nd Maid Ya'ackov Ben-Sira as Bailiff (as Yaacov Ben-Sira) Rafi Goldvasser as Acrobat/Juggler Eduardo Hobshar as...
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  • hammidrash) is found in the mid-Hellenistic period (2nd cent. BC) in the book of Ben Sira (51:23). However, the writing of the Bible as well as the variety of inscriptional...
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    Human Beings (Library of Congress) The Story of Lilith in The Alphabet of Ben Sira Islamic view of the fall of Adam (audio) 98 classical images of Adam and...
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    Ezra (redirect from Ezra ben Seraiah)
    Zerubbabel on the other hand. The early 2nd-century BCE Jewish author Ben Sira praises Nehemiah, but makes no mention of Ezra. Richard Friedman argues...
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  • list of names, some scholars have conjectured that the author, Yeshua ben Sira, had access to, and considered authoritative, the books of Genesis, Exodus...
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    Temple period, from Jehoshua ben Jehozadak after the Exile, down to Simon II (Simon the Just, much praised in Ben Sira 50), his eldest son Onias III...
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  • "Instruction," and probably 4Q369 the "Prayer of Enosh", as well as in Ben Sira. The concept of the firstborn was heavily present in Hellenistic Judaism...
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  • supportive. In addition to Geddes, and Dizengoff, the city engineer Ya'acov Ben-Sira contributed significantly to the development and planning during his 1929...
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  • vowelized, and both of them incorporate parts of the original Hebrew for Ben Sira that were found in the Cairo Geniza and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Avraham Kahana...
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    distinct boundary between themselves and the Idumeans. This is evident in Ben Sira 50:25–26, which expresses disdain for three "nations," including "the inhabitants...
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    anagignoskomena are Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira (Sirach), Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah (in the Vulgate this is chapter 6...
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    Library & Museum, and other institutions. This instruction is referenced by Ben Sira in the Deuterocanonical Book of Sirach at Sirach 38:24–39:11. The Satire...
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  • The Greek Septuagint, and both the Qumran and Masada Hebrew versions of Ben Sira conclude with a first-person character speaking in Wisdom's voice as in...
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  • Dominican baseball player Jesus ben Ananias (died c. 73), Jewish nationalist mentioned by Josephus Jesus Ben Sira (fl. 2nd century AD), religious writer...
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    ISBN 978-1-83982-827-0, S2CID 238706123, retrieved 2021-09-27 Zeev Ben-Sira (1997). Immigration, Stress, and Readjustment. Greenwood. pp. 7–10. ISBN 9780275956325...
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    genuinely original work including Ben Sira, Tobit, Judith, 1 Enoch and, much later, Maccabees. The literature from Ben Sira onwards is increasingly permeated...
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  • render the hands unclean" (M. Yadayim 3.5). Of the apocryphal books, only Ben Sira is mentioned by name in rabbinic sources and it continued to be circulated...
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