JESUS, the Son of SIRACH, a native of Jerusalem, composed about 200 B. C. the Book of Ecclesiasticus, called by the Greeks Πανυψις, "replenished with virtue;" who also quote it under the title of the Wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach. His grandson, who was also of the same name, and a native of Jerusalem, translated it from the Hebrew into Greek about 121 B. C. We have this Greek version, but the Hebrew text is lost.