CHAPTER V

INTERNAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE JEWS DURING THE PERSIAN PERIOD

Footnote 66:

Cf. especially the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, in the editions of Kautzsch or Charles.

Footnote 67:

That the name is Sira and not Sirach, as it appears in the LXX, is generally accepted. It was the practice of Greeks to put a final Χ to foreign names to indicate that they were indeclinable. Cf. Ἰωσήχ (Luke iii. 26) for José.

Footnote 68:

Ecclesiasticus xlviii. 24.

Footnote 69:

Job iv. 7 seq.