The Wisdom of Sirach: An Advanced Greek Reader with a Translation

Increasingly, researchers of Scripture understand the indispensable value of Intertestamental Jewish texts. Since many of these texts were composed in and/or translated and transmitted in Greek, the Jewish Texts Greek Readers (JTGR) series provides a broad sampling of these Jewish texts from the Hellenistic era. The JTGR are advanced Greek readers (Tier 5) in GlossaHouse’s AGROS series. This particular JTGR volume by Benjamin R. Porter contains an introduction to the Greek text of The Wisdom of Sirach as well as Porter’s new translation. As an advanced Greek reader, Porter has prepared footnotes with glosses for Greek words occurring less than thirteen times in the Greek New Testament. Additionally, readers will find translation helps (TH) and morphological helps (MH) for difficult grammatical forms that will inform the translation that provided. Finally, a gloss lexicon of Greek words occurring thirteen times or more in the New Testament is included to aid in translation.