Charles — Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha Vol. I — Section 719
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Work: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament — Vol. I
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R. H. Charles ed. 1913, Vol. I
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iv. The influence of Ben-Stra on Rabbinical Literature. That Ben-Sira’s book has exercised a considerable influence on Rabbinic literature hardly needs any further demonstration. Allusion has been already made more than once, in the course of this Introduction, to the large number of quotations from the book that occur in the Talmuds, the Midrashim, and the works of some great Jewish scholars and poets like Sa‘adya and Ibn Gebirol.!' Even after the work had been banned by distinguished Rabbinical authority, and so became suspect to the orthodox, collections of extracts from it were still…
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- R. H. Charles, ed., 1913 — Internet Archive
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- Public-domain-era 1913 edition; unrestricted Internet Archive derivative required
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- English
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