The Alphabet of Ben SiraAuthor(s): C. TaylorSource: The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jan., 1905), pp. 238-239Published by: University of Pennsylvania PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1450807 .

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238 THE JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIEW

THE ALPHABET OF BEN SIRA.

ZOIA XEIPAX LI. 13-29 from The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, H. B. Swete, D.D. (II, 753 f., Camb., I896), with the letters of Ben Sira's Alphabet assigned conjecturally to their places in relation to the Greek.

x 13 &n b&v VErTrEpos rnptv i trhavYO0va( Ie,

~ijrricra oootlav pofavz& sv rporevXp Iwov'

3 14 rvavrt vaov /i&ovv Irept avrrls, Kal cSw &rTXaCrwJv KT7rT<rcr avTrlv.

J Is5 &vOovs w E 7?pKaf'6(Ts ravXs

ev4paivO?rl Kapsia pov v r avrT T ^rrE' 6 7o3'6 W01o S IOV , v EevOvr?7Tr,

EK VEOTrTOSg jAOV 1XvEvOV a'avr'v. l 1i6 EKXlva ohXyov ro og IAov Ka~l e46irl1AV,

Kal ToXX,krV epov uAavrt) Ta&8iEav 1 I7 7rpOK07rl7 yEverod /ol v avr2p

T() Sot ,uo& rotav Sacro ao'eav. T 18 b&rvorOlv yap rov woolr'at avnrv,

Kal ai o)raa ro ayaOov, Kai oV Ji/l atroxvvOx .

n '9 I&rae?/At-crTalj '

*V iov 'v aivvr, Kai EV WOL?lt XAL,LOv' rL71Kpct3aoa(r-aIryLv

t3 XraS xeViP&s ov kerCraora rpbos *os, * * * * * * *

Kal Tr?a ayvo?Lara avr?s 07rEvro'a' 20 riV i,vxfrv IAOV KarevOvva ElS a'vv,

* * * * * * *a

5 Kapsiav &KTrl'/x/r?) /zeEr avrrw apxl7' ix , Kat iv KaOaplao-At espov av-r'v T8a ro7ro ov /01) EKa,raXE?ar^X .

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THE ALPHABET OF BEN SIRA 239

21 Ka'l 7 Kor&Xa p4ov Irap4XOQh aK&Tr)oral avrT?7v

b&a ToV7irO KTr'la4zqv ayaObv KrT)jla.

3 22 18CoXKEV Kvptos yXAo-oav Lot Ltcro'v ov,

Kal av a lrji^ av(r avrov. D 23 'Eyy(taare 7rpos !g, 'ara(bevro&,

Kal avhao'0crlr v oE K 0 C) rai&ias.

24 Kat Or& vo'Trpe?c'a& a AEyTE ve Tv ro&o,

Kai ai *-vxal vipyv &BorLrt ordo'bpa, D 25 'ivo&a To C-rojia lov Kal 'AaAa

Kr'o-aorOE avrot? &aEv apyvp(ov' 26 rov rpcxyXov vpo5v v'deTr re vrlo 'vyo v,

Kal ?rts8E$a'odaO( ? v rvXr v'W^v at8eilav9

p syyvs icrtv ezpeio avwrrv.

1 27 Ztere v 6f0aAJp ooZs X Jo p Tv oAv yov Korlatra,

Kal Epov lzavrT 7roXhlv dv&ravaC'v.

t* 28 p,.era'oXEr 7raLbE'av v iv 7roXX( aptOp&i apyvptov, Kal roXvv Xpvrov KTrjoaa-Oe v avrp

1n 29 evcpaVOEvel vXIir r vCOV Ev ) X EAE?L avrov,

Kalt pur aiorxvvO8irTe Ev alve'O-e avrov.

C. TAYLOR.

[NoTE.-The Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, delivered a public lecture on November 2, I904, in which the above arrange- ment of the Alphabet was presented. The full text of the lecture will eventually appear in the Journal of Philology. Dr. Taylor has also reconstructed the Hebrew (on the basis of the Cambridge MS., with important conjectural emendations) and has come to the general conclusion that the Hebrew is not a retranslation from the Syriac. The Hebrew text, however, he regards as corrupt. Dr. Taylor made the suggestion that in the Hebrew the t3 line begins 'W SnnEO brln; the t line with ITnDMt (synonymous emendation for MnI'Mn); and the D line tDDln ' V110tD (C'D1 synonymous emendation of 13, cf. Bickell).

ED. J. Q. R.]

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