Abstract
In a contribution to the Moshe Bar Asher Festschrift, published in 2007, the author draws attention to some instances of West Aramaic vocabulary in the Syriac version of Ben Sira. In linguistic perspective, too, the Syriac version is definitely diglossos. Most of the translation reflects the Syriac language as we know it from the Peshitta version of other biblical books and from other early texts. The meaning to comfort, required in 48:24, while attested in no other Syriac texts, is common in western Aramaic dialects. The Syriac version of Ben Sira is writing about which very little is known. Keywords: Ben Sira; Syriac version; West Aramaic dialects
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