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- Title: Septuagint: Wisdom of Joshua ben Sira
- Author : Scriptural Research Institute
- Release Date : January 21, 2020
- Genre: Judaism,Books,Religion & Spirituality,Bible Studies,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 332 KB
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The Wisdom of Joshua ben Sira was likely the last book added to the Septuagint, in 132 BC, after Joshua ben Sira’s grandson translated it in Alexandria. The book is known by several names, including Sirach, Wisdom of Sirach, Wisdom of Jesus Sirach, ben Sira, Ecclesiasticus, and the Book of the All-Virtuous Wisdom of Yeshua ben Sira. This diversity of names is based on the fact that the Masorites did not copy the text, however, an Aramaic copy and some fragments of the ancient Hebrew version have survived. As the Masorites did not copy the Wisdom of Solomon, it was ultimately dropped from most Protestant bibles, however, remains part of the Catholic, Orthodox, and Tewahedo Bibles.
The Septuagint’s version of the Wisdom of Joshua ben Sirach appears to have been partially redacted before or during the Greek translation, as some of the fragments found among the Dead Sea Scrolls appear to be missing from the Septuagint. Given everything that had happened between 200 and 132 BC, it is plausible that Joshua’s grandson chose to not translate some of his grandfather’s writing that would have become heretical during the 2nd-century BC. This era is when the Jewish nationalists fought a decades-long war of independence from the Greek Seleucid dynasty of Syria, and in the process became fairly isolated and xenophobic. One of the main reasons for the war of independence was the attempts of the Greeks and some Jews to Hellenize the Jews, which saw the Jewish god Iaw likened to Dionysus, and the general re-introduction of polytheism, creating a form of Jewish hedonism.
Some elements of the hedonistic version of Judaism remain in the Wisdom of Joshua ben Sira, including the reference to Iaw reacquiring Israel as his portion when the Highest God divided the nations of humanity between the princes. This is a reference to the 70 or 72 Elohim who were placed over the 70 or 72 nations of humans, in the early Second Temple era hedonistic form of Judaism. This was first mentioned in the Song of Moses, in Deuteronomy chapter 32, and then again in the Talmud which mentions the story of Dobiel, the ‘prince of Persia’ who was once the proxy for Gabriel in heaven for 21 days after Gabriel angered God by allowing the Jews to leave Babylon, when God wanted the Babylonians to kill them. While be was Gabriel’s proxy Dobiel allowed the Persians to conquer the known world, which was the explanation of the sudden rise of the Persian Empire in the early Second Temple era. Dobiel was again referred to as the ‘Prince of Persia’ in the Revelation of Metatron, which listed Samael as the ‘Prince of Rome.’
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