Sirach, by Ben Sira, also known as Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach, the Wisdom of Ben Sira, or Ecclesiasticus,'s a work from the second century BC, originally written in Hebrew. The book's included in the Septuagint and's accepted as part of the biblical canon by Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and most Oriental Orthodox but not by most Protestants, and's listed in among the deutero-canonical books in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England. Although it wasn't accepted into t… (More on Ecclesiasticus)