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The featured studies
The studies in Sirach, sorted by the kind of thing each one teaches.
Summary
Sirach holds 3 of the site's 1112 featured studies, in 2 of the ten kinds.
- 2 studies ask what a whole book of the Bible says from end to end.
- 1 study asks what one passage says, line by line.
The studies by kind
Books of the Bible
One study for each book, with the studies of how the Bible came to us and how its writers wrote. This is the place to begin a book from end to end.
2 studies, 0 as cards, 2 in the register
The register: 2 studies of this kind
- Sirach beside JamesThis page lines up three sayings in Sirach against nearly identical sayings in James and asks what the parallel means.
- The Fear of the Lord in Ben SiraThis page reads Sirach's opening theme, the fear of the Lord as the beginning of wisdom, beside its source in Proverbs, then follows Ben Sira's practical wisdom into daily life.
Passages and psalms
These studies take a chapter, a song or a single teaching and read it line by line. Each stays inside one passage and follows its own movement.
1 studies, 0 as cards, 1 in the register
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The roster is the site’s own build manifest, so no study can be missing from it. A study leads its kind when it carries a line of its own and more of the other studies link to it; a register row with no line of its own borrows the first sentence of the study’s own summary. The pictures are public domain: engravings by Gustave Doré from Doré’s English Bible(1866), and paintings held at Wikimedia Commons. Each is named in full on the study’s own page.