From the oldest times the district was divided by the river Sira between the counties Rogaland and Vest-Agder.
Sira | Ben Sira | sira | Shimon ben Yeshua ben Eliezer ben Sira |
This retelling of the sira or life of the Prophet is based directly on Arabic sources of the eighth and ninth centuries, including some passages which were translated here for the first time.
Shim`on ben Yeshu`a ben Sira is not to be confused with his grandfather, Ben Sira, but this article will refer to him simply as Ben Sira for convenience.
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M.Z. Segal, in his commentary on Ben Sira, concluded that the long form with Shim`on should be accepted as original and suggested that the common naming of the book "Ben Sira" is because so many people were named Shim`on at the end of the Second Temple that people often used the family name without "Shim`on."
Kaggaladu heronry: Located on the Sira – Chengavara main road, this is one of Karnataka's largest nesting sites for Painted Stork and Grey Herons.
The Egyptian poet and writer Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi has made an exhaustive collection of the Sira, travelling from Egypt to Libya to Tunisia to document the variants of the epic.