Sirach 24 can be read as a compendium of Ben Sira's ideology of Wisdom,bringing together the essential concepts of the book: Wisdom, Law, prophecy,and temple worship. The scholars have long ago recognized the dense network of intertextual links between this chapter and other biblical texts, as well as the background of Ben Sira's image of Lady Wisdom in Hellenistic texts. One obvious biblical precedent of Sirach 24 has gone virtually unnoticed so far: the Song of Songs. This essay attempts (1) at demonstrating the close affinity of Sirach 24 with the Song of Songs; (2) at disclosing the underlying ideology of the goddess as mediatrix of divine knowledge, prominent not only in the ancient Near Eastern love lyrics, but also in prophecy; and (3) at showing that the book of Ben Sira, being a product of the Hellenistic-Jewish culture, at the same time forms a part of the ancient Near Eastern heritage of early Judaism.