In this podcast, Francis Borchardt of the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Hong Kong joins us to talk about the Prologue to Sirach and the question of the emerging Hebrew Bible canon. Since the writer of the Prologue — assumed to be Ben Sira's grandson and the translator of the Greek version of Ben Sira — mentions three categories of writings, scholars have often argued that we have here early evidence in the late second century BCE of a tripartite arrangement that we now know as the Torah–Nevi'im–Ketuvim of the Tanakh (the Law, Prophets, and the Writings of the Hebrew Bible).