Rabbinic tradition sometimes treated Ben Sira not as a marginal figure but as a fellow rabbi whose sayings could be cited with authority, attributing teachings to him by name and drawing on his words in halakhic and aggadic argument the way the words of any other rabbi are quoted. The rabbinic quotations are based on the earliest Hebrew form of the book, rather than the Greek translation produced by his grandson or the Latin versions used in the Christian West.
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Ben Sira the Rabbi
Rabbinic tradition sometimes treated Ben Sira not as a marginal figure but as a fellow rabbi whose sayings could be cited with authority, attributing teachings to him by name and drawing on his words in halakhic and aggadic argument the way the words of any other rabbi are quoted. The rabbinic quotations are based on the earliest Hebrew form of the book, rather than the Greek translation produced by his grandson or the Latin versions used in the Christian West.
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