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Ben Sira (flourished in the 2nd century BCE) a Hellenistic Jewish scribe, sage, and allegorist from Jerusalem. He is the author of the Wisdom of Sirach, also known as the Book of Ecclesiasticus. Ben Sira is also known as Joshua ben Sirach, Shim`on ben Yeshu`a ben Sira, Jesus son of Sirach, or Jesus Siracides. He wrote his work in Hebrew, possibly in Alexandria, Egypt ca. 180–175 BCE, where he is thought to have established a school.〔See Guillaume, Philippe, (''New Light on the Nebiim from Alexandria: A Chronography to Replace the Deuteronomistic History''. PDF ) Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 5.9 (2004): sections 3-5: full notes and bibliography〕 This text had later been translated into Greek by his grandson. He also wrote about manners. Some commentators claim Ben Sira was a contemporary of Simon the Just (''Shim`on HaTzadik''), although it is more likely that his contemporary was Simon II (High Priest) (219–199 BCE). A medieval text, the Alphabet of Sirach, has been attributed to Ben Sira. ==Name== The surname Sira may mean 'thorn' ((Ecclesiastes 7:6, Hosea 2:6) ), 'white of the eye' (Mishnaic Hebrew), or 'boat' (according to one reading of Amos 4:2 ). Sira could also be an Aramaicized form of a family name ''ha-qots'' "the thorn" (Ezra 2:51). In the Greek text, the author is called "Jesus the son of Sirach of Jerusalem." "Jesus" is the Anglicized form of the Greek name ''Ἰησοῦς'', the equivalent of the Aramaic borrowed from Late Biblical Hebrew ''Yeshua`,'' derived from the older Masoretic Hebrew ''Yehoshua`''. The copy owned by Saadia Gaon, the prominent rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the 10th Century CE, had the reading "Shim`on, son of Yeshua`, son of El`azar ben Sira"; and a similar reading occurs in the Hebrew manuscript B. M.Z. Segal, in his commentary on Ben Sira, concluded that the long form with ''Shim`on'' should be accepted as original and suggested that the common naming of the book "Ben Sira" is because so many people were named ''Shim`on'' at the end of the Second Temple period that people often used the family name without ''Shim`on''. ''Sirach'' is the Greek form of the family name ''Sira''. It adds the letter ''Chi'' similar to ''Hakel-dama-ch'' in Acts 1:19. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ben Sira」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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