The Hebrew ben Sira: Other MSS

The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit

Fragment Or.1102

Other ben Sira Fragments

Since Schechter's momentous discovery, many other Genizah fragments of the Hebrew ben Sira have been discovered, in Cambridge and elsewhere. In 1901 the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses issued facsimiles of all the then-known fragments; others have subsequently been identified, and are discussed below.

The fragments held at Cambridge are as follows:

T-S Classmark	Contents	Designation
T-S 12.863	3.6 - 7.29	MS "A"
T-S 12.864	11.34 - 16.26	MS "A"
T-S 12.871	10.19 - 11.10	MS "B"
T-S NS 38a.1	15.1 - 16.7	MS "B"
T-S 16.312	30.11 - 31.11	MS "B"
T-S 16.313	32.1 - 33.3; 35.11 - 36.26[1]	MS "B"
T-S 16.312	37.27 - 38.27	MS "B"
Or.1102	39.15 - 40.8	MS "B"
T-S 16.314	49.12 - 50.22	MS "B"
T-S 16.315	50.22 - 51.30	MS "B"
T-S 12.727	4.23, 30, 31; 5.4-7c, 9-13; 36.19a(?); 25.8, 13, 17-24; 26.1-2a	MS "C"
T-S 12.867	various[2]	MS "C"
T-S AS 213.4	25.8, 20-21	MS "C"
T-S AS 213.17	31.24 - 33.8	MS "F"

Notes:
[1] Numbered in Schechter's edition as 35.9 - 36.21.
[2] T-S 12.867 contains 3.14-18, 21-22; 41.16; 4.21; 20.22-23; 4.22-23; 26.2-3; 13; 15-17; 36.27-31. See below.