Ecclesiasticus
Deuterocanonical · Poetic Books · 51 chapters
Ben Sira’s long collection of teachings on everyday life, family, friendship and prayer, ending with a hymn praising Israel’s ancestors.
FamilyWisdomWorship
Context
- Genre
- Wisdom instruction
- Authorship
- Jesus son of Sirach (Ben Sira)His grandson translated it into Greek, as the prologue says.
- Date
- early 2nd century BCE
- Setting
- Jerusalem
- Original language
- Hebrew, with an early Greek translation
- In the original
- חָכְמָהchokmah — wisdom
- Related texts
- Proverbs 1–9 · instruction of wisdomWisdom of Solomon 6–9 · wisdom praised