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Ben Sira

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Noun1.Ben Sira - an Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect)
Ecclesiasticus, Sirach, Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach
Apocrypha - 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status
sapiential book, wisdom book, wisdom literature - any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom


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INTERTEXTUAL STUDIES IN BEN SIRA AND TOBIT: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF ALEXANDER A.
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We are very excited to be a part of this important project and deliver Insight from Interactions to help increase the security of Beijing's mass transit system," said Doron Ben Sira, President of NICE APAC.
Beijing Metro Selects NICE's Next Generation Security Solutions to ... by Business Wire
The basic texts of the personified Wisdom are Job 28, Proverbs 8, Ben Sira 24, and Wisdom of Solomon 7-9.
A typology of personified wisdom hymns by Miura, Nozomi / Biblical Theology Bulletin
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