Buch der Sprichwörter
The 5th-century BC [[Aramaic]] story "[[Story of Ahikar|Words of Ahikar]]" is full of sayings and proverbs, many similar to local Babylonian and Persian aphorisms as well as passages similar to parts of the "[[Book of Proverbs]]" and others to the [[deuterocanonical]] "[[Wisdom of Sirach]]".