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[[File:Fugger Ehrenbuch 001.jpg|thumbnail|right|300px|An Illustration of Joshua Sirach in Das Geheime Ehrenbuch der Fugger by the painter Jörg Breu the Younger, 1545–1549]]

[[File:Fugger Ehrenbuch 001.jpg|thumbnail|right|300px|An Illustration of Joshua Sirach in Das Geheime Ehrenbuch der Fugger by the painter Jörg Breu the Younger, 1545–1549]]

The '''Book of Sirach''', otherwise called ''The Wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach, or, '''Ecclesiasticus''''', originally written in [[Hebrew]], is part of the books of the [[Septuagint]], which is the [[Old Testament]] accepted as inspired and canonical by the [[Orthodox Church]] in the ''Greek Orthodox Bible''.  

The '''Book of Sirach''', otherwise called ''The Wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach, or, '''Ecclesiasticus''''', originally written in [[Hebrew]], is part of the books of the [[Septuagint]], which is the [[Old Testament]] accepted as inspired and canonical by the [[Orthodox Church]] in the ''Greek Orthodox Bible''. In Lutheran and Anglican Bibles, the Book of Sirach is part of the [[Apocrypha]] section that straddles the Old Testament and New Testamant.

The Book of Sirach is the longest extant book of [[wisdom]] preserved from ancient times, as written between roughly 200 and 175 B.C. by Yeshua ben Eleazar ben Sira (Ben Sira). He was a [[Hellenistic]] Jewish scribe who lived during the era of the [[Second Temple]].

The Book of Sirach is the longest extant book of [[wisdom]] preserved from ancient times, as written between roughly 200 and 175 B.C. by Yeshua ben Eleazar ben Sira (Ben Sira). He was a [[Hellenistic]] Jewish scribe who lived during the era of the [[Second Temple]].

[[Lutheranism|Lutherans]] view the Book of Sirach as useful wisdom literature, but not an inspired book that should be used to formulate Christian [[doctrine]].

[[Lutheranism|Lutherans]] view the Book of Sirach as useful wisdom literature, but not an inspired book that should be used to formulate Christian [[doctrine]].

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