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Septuagint, Ecclesiasticus (Siracides), 41.1-41.4
nan O death, how bitter is the reminder of you to one who lives at peace among his possessions,to a man without distractions, who is prosperous in everything,and who still has the vigor to enjoy his food!
nan Whatever is from the dust returns to dust;so the ungodly go from curse to destruction.
nan and of silence, before those who greet you;of looking at a woman who is a harlot
NaN
nan and how can you reject the good pleasure of the Most High?Whether life is for ten or a hundred or a thousand years,there is no inquiry about it in Hades.

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1. Septuagint, Tobit, 14.10-14.11 (th cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 14.10. Bury me properly, and your mother with me. And do not live in Nineveh any longer. See, my son, what Nadab did to Ahikar who had reared him, how he brought him from light into darkness, and with what he repaid him. But Ahikar was saved, and the other received repayment as he himself went down into the darkness. Ahikar gave alms and escaped the deathtrap which Nadab had set for him; but Nadab fell into the trap and perished. 14.11. So now, my children, consider what almsgiving accomplishes and how righteousness delivers." As he said this he died in his bed. He was a hundred and fifty-eight years old; and Tobias gave him a magnificent funeral.
2. Hebrew Bible, Deuteronomy, 30.15 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 30.15. רְאֵה נָתַתִּי לְפָנֶיךָ הַיּוֹם אֶת־הַחַיִּים וְאֶת־הַטּוֹב וְאֶת־הַמָּוֶת וְאֶת־הָרָע׃ 30.15. See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil,"
3. Hebrew Bible, Job, 21.7 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 21.7. מַדּוּעַ רְשָׁעִים יִחְיוּ עָתְקוּ גַּם־גָּבְרוּ חָיִל׃ 21.7. Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?"
4. Hebrew Bible, Psalms, 73.3 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 73.3. כִּי־קִנֵּאתִי בַּהוֹלְלִים שְׁלוֹם רְשָׁעִים אֶרְאֶה׃ 73.3. For I was envious at the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked."
5. Hebrew Bible, Jeremiah, 12.1 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 12.1. רֹעִים רַבִּים שִׁחֲתוּ כַרְמִי בֹּסְסוּ אֶת־חֶלְקָתִי נָתְנוּ אֶת־חֶלְקַת חֶמְדָּתִי לְמִדְבַּר שְׁמָמָה׃ 12.1. צַדִּיק אַתָּה יְהוָה כִּי אָרִיב אֵלֶיךָ אַךְ מִשְׁפָּטִים אֲדַבֵּר אוֹתָךְ מַדּוּעַ דֶּרֶךְ רְשָׁעִים צָלֵחָה שָׁלוּ כָּל־בֹּגְדֵי בָגֶד׃ 12.1. Right wouldest Thou be, O LORD, were I to contend with Thee, yet will I reason with Thee: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? Wherefore are all they secure that deal very treacherously?"
6. Homer, Iliad, 6.148-6.149 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 6.148. / Great-souled son of Tydeus, wherefore inquirest thou of my lineage? Even as are the generations of leaves, such are those also of men. As for the leaves, the wind scattereth some upon the earth, but the forest, as it bourgeons, putteth forth others when the season of spring is come; even so of men one generation springeth up and another passeth away. 6.149. / Great-souled son of Tydeus, wherefore inquirest thou of my lineage? Even as are the generations of leaves, such are those also of men. As for the leaves, the wind scattereth some upon the earth, but the forest, as it bourgeons, putteth forth others when the season of spring is come; even so of men one generation springeth up and another passeth away.
7. Septuagint, Tobit, 14.10-14.11 (4th cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 14.10. Bury me properly, and your mother with me. And do not live in Nineveh any longer. See, my son, what Nadab did to Ahikar who had reared him, how he brought him from light into darkness, and with what he repaid him. But Ahikar was saved, and the other received repayment as he himself went down into the darkness. Ahikar gave alms and escaped the deathtrap which Nadab had set for him; but Nadab fell into the trap and perished. 14.11. So now, my children, consider what almsgiving accomplishes and how righteousness delivers." As he said this he died in his bed. He was a hundred and fifty-eight years old; and Tobias gave him a magnificent funeral.
8. Anon., 1 Enoch, 91.12-91.13 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 91.12. And after that there shall be another, the eighth week, that of righteousness, And a sword shall be given to it that a righteous judgement may be executed on the oppressors, And sinners shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous. 91.13. And at its close they shall acquire houses through their righteousness, And a house shall be built for the Great King in glory for evermore
9. Hebrew Bible, Daniel, 11.27, 11.29 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 11.27. וּשְׁנֵיהֶם הַמְּלָכִים לְבָבָם לְמֵרָע וְעַל־שֻׁלְחָן אֶחָד כָּזָב יְדַבֵּרוּ וְלֹא תִצְלָח כִּי־עוֹד קֵץ לַמּוֹעֵד׃ 11.29. לַמּוֹעֵד יָשׁוּב וּבָא בַנֶּגֶב וְלֹא־תִהְיֶה כָרִאשֹׁנָה וְכָאַחֲרֹנָה׃ 11.27. And as for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper, for the end remaineth yet for the time appointed." 11.29. At the time appointed he shall return, and come into the south; but it shall not be in the latter time as it was in the former."
10. Septuagint, 2 Maccabees, 1.35, 4.28 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 1.35. And with those persons whom the king favored he exchanged many excellent gifts. 4.28. When Sostratus the captain of the citadel kept requesting payment, for the collection of the revenue was his responsibility, the two of them were summoned by the king on account of this issue.'
11. Septuagint, Ecclesiasticus (Siracides), 1.13, 1.30, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.10, 6.16, 6.37, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.9, 7.11, 7.12, 7.13, 7.14, 7.15, 7.17, 7.18, 7.19, 7.24, 7.25, 7.27, 7.29, 7.30, 7.31, 7.32, 7.34, 9.13, 10, 11.8, 11.14, 11.17, 11.18, 11.19, 11.21, 11.22, 11.23, 11.24, 11.25, 11.26, 11.27, 11.28, 14.3, 14.5, 14.14, 14.15, 14.16, 14.17, 14.18, 15.17, 17.27, 17.28, 18.24, 22.23, 23.16, 23.17, 25.9, 25.10, 25.11, 27.1, 29.10, 29.11, 29.12, 30.14, 31.15, 38.1, 38.2, 38.3, 38.4, 38.5, 38.6, 38.7, 38.8, 38.9, 38.10, 38.11, 38.12, 38.13, 38.14, 38.15, 38.24-39.11, 38.34, 40.1, 40.2, 40.3, 40.4, 40.5, 40.6, 40.7, 40.26, 40.29, 41.2, 41.3, 41.4, 41.5, 41.6, 41.7, 41.8, 41.9, 41.10, 41.11, 41.12, 41.13, 41.14, 41.15, 42.15-43.33, 42.19, 43.6, 43.13, 43.18, 44, 44.6, 44.7, 44.10, 44.11, 44.12, 44.13, 44.14, 44.15, 45, 45.6, 45.7, 45.8, 45.9, 45.10, 45.11, 45.12, 45.13, 45.14, 45.15, 45.16, 45.17, 45.18, 45.19, 45.20, 45.21, 45.22, 45.23, 45.24, 45.25, 45.26, 46, 46.19, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 1.13. She made among men an eternal foundation,and among their descendants she will be trusted.
12. Septuagint, Wisdom of Solomon, 2.23-2.24 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 2.23. for God created man for incorruption,and made him in the image of his own eternity 2.24. but through the devils envy death entered the world,and those who belong to his party experience it.
13. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.102-1.126 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
14. Epictetus, Discourses, 4.7.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
15. New Testament, Acts, 26.18 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 26.18. to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
16. New Testament, Colossians, 1.13 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 1.13. who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
17. New Testament, Ephesians, 2.2, 6.12 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 2.2. in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience; 6.12. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
18. New Testament, Hebrews, 2.15 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 2.15. and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
19. New Testament, John, 12.31 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 12.31. Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
20. Lucian, The Passing of Peregrinus, 23, 13 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
21. Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome, Meditations, 11.3 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
22. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 3.5.7 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
23. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 3.5.7 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
24. Anon., Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer, 13

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
afterlife	Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 19, 102
anger,wild	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 694
anthropological	Garcia (2021), On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition, 253
aramaic	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
astrology	Beyerle and Goff (2022), Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, 416
atonement,as defeat of the devil	nan
atonement,as means of deliverance from death'	nan
ben sira	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 4, 23
body	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 694
children	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 694
composition and editing	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
corpse	Garcia (2021), On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition, 253
crisis	Beyerle and Goff (2022), Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, 414
death	Beyerle and Goff (2022), Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, 414, 416; Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 19, 85, 102; Garcia (2021), On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition, 253; Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 78
dust	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 694
eschatology	Beyerle and Goff (2022), Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, 416
extant	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
fear of god	Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 85
flesh	Garcia (2021), On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition, 253
florilegia	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
foot/feet	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 694
god	Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 85, 102
hands,serpent,of	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 694
hellenism/hellenistic period	Beyerle and Goff (2022), Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, 414
hellenistic	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 4, 23
homer	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
hymn of creation	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
israel/israelite	Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 102
jewish scribe x	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 4, 23
judgment	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 694
late antique period	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 4
law of moses	Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 85
library furniture	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 4
life	Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 19, 102
memory	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
olson,daniel,ophir,gold of	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 68
patriarchs	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
physical	Garcia (2021), On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition, 253
pliny the elder	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
poetry	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
praise of the fathers	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
pride	Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 102
private (collection,property,goods)	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
prophets	Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 102
prosperity	Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 102
retribution	Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 19
reversal of fortunes	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 78
rhyme,final	Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 85
roman period	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 4
rome	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 4
salvation	Garcia (2021), On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition, 253
schools	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
scribal education	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
secrets/confidences,keeping/betraying	Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 19
serpent	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 694
sinfulness	Garcia (2021), On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition, 253
soul	Garcia (2021), On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition, 253
speech,imputed	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 68
spirit	Garcia (2021), On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition, 253
suetonius	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
textual reuse	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
theodicy	Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 19, 102
torah,faithfulness to	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 68
torah,obedience to	Beyerle and Goff (2022), Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, 416
torah	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 23
transgression	Garcia (2021), On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition, 253
translation	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 4
transmission	Allen and Dunne (2022), Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity, 4
unjust flesh	Garcia (2021), On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition, 253
visions	Beyerle and Goff (2022), Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, 414
weakness (human)	Garcia (2021), On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition, 253
wealth	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 68
weeds,adam,of	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 694
wicked	Garcia (2021), On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition, 253
wickedness	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 694
wing	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 694
wisdom	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 694
worms	Garcia (2021), On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition, 253