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D.S. Margoliouth suggested that it had been translated from Greek into Perisan and then into Hebrew by a 10th-century Persian Jew. G. Bickell argued it is was a slavish translation of the Syriac. See Di Lella, The Wisdom of Ben Sira, p. 54.

Schechter in his introduction to Schechter and Taylor, The Wisdom of Ben Sira, pp. 32, 35.

Schechter, quoted in Bentwich, Solomon Schechter, p. 149.

Di Lella, The Wisdom of Ben Sira, pp. 4, 7, 12; and “Wisdom of Ben Sira,” p. 931.

Schechter and Charles Taylor, The Wisdom of Ben Sira—Portions of the Book Ecclesiasticus from Hebrew Manuscripts in the Cairo Genizah Collection Presented to the University of Cambridge by the Editors (Cambridge, Eng: Cambridge University Press, 1899).

Raphael Levy, “First ‘Dead Sea Scroll,’ Found in Egypt Fifty Years Before Qumran Discoveries,” BAR 08:05.

For a description of Schechter’s trip and for Schechter’s comments on the genizah, see Bentwich, Solomon Schechter, pp. 126–133; and Schechter, “A Hoard of Hebrew Manuscripts,” in Studies in Judaism, second series (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1908), p. 6, reprinted from The Times, August 3, 1897.

For more on the Ben Ezra synagogue, see Fortifications and the Synagogue, ed. Phyllis Lambert (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994); and H.A. Meek, The Synagogue (London: Phaidon, 1995).

Solomon Schechter, “A Fragment of the Hebrew Text of Ecclesiasticus,” Expositor, 5th Series, 4 (1896), pp. 1–15; excerpts appear in Bentwich, Solomon Schechter, p. 143. Adolphe Neubauer and Arthur Ernest Cowley, The Original Hebrew of a Portion of Ecclesiasticus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897).