ABSTRACT
Recently, I published a book-length examination of the ideologies and theologies of social justice in the Old Testament, titled Contending for Justice (Houston 2008). That work made no reference to the book of wisdom of Ben Sira, despite the fact that more may be found there on the related topics of social justice, money, work and the relations between rich and poor than in any book of the Hebrew Bible: perhaps about 170 verses. This chapter is a first essay towards repairing this considerable omission.
