Abstract
The Wisdom of Ben Sira, more than most other Hebrew texts that precede it, displays an obvious concern for language. In an essay published in 2008, Friedrich V. Reiterer calls attention to the use of polysemous words throughout Ben Siras book and in a footnote comments that further treatment of this field will enrich understanding of Sirach in the future, and is only at the beginning of research. Identifying which cases of wordplay derive from textual transmission is not easy, especially because Ben Siras textual history is so difficult to unravel. In some cases, the wordplay is of a more complex variety that plays on the meaning of a single word or even distinct but similar sounding words. Keywords: Ben Sira; Hebrew texts; wordplay
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