What is the book of Sirach?
Portions of Sirach are used today in Catholic Church liturgy.
The book of Sirach is part of what is considered the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical scripture and appears in the Old Testament of Catholic Bible.
It is considered one of the ‘wisdom’ books.
Except for some Episcopal or Lutheran Bibles, Sirach and other books of the Apocrypha do not appear in Protestant Bibles.
Apocrypha means ‘hidden’ and deuterocanonical means ‘second-listed’.
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Books of the Apocrypha were generally written in the roughly 400 years between the composition of the books in the Old and New Testaments, the intertestamental period.
Sirach, also known as ‘ecclesiasticus’ or the ‘Wisdom of Sirach’ is one of 12 to 15 books generally recognised as comprising the Apocrypha.
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