Sirach and its contexts : the pursuit of wisdom and human flourishing / edited by Samuel Adams, Greg Schmidt Goering, Matthew Goff.
Contributor(s): Adams, Samuel L [editor.]
| Goering, Greg Schmidt [editor.] | Goff, Matthew J [editor.]
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TextSeries: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism: volume 196.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021Description: x, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004447325; 9004447326Subject(s): Bible. Ecclesiasticus -- Criticism, interpretation, etcDDC classification: 229/.406 LOC classification: BS1765.52 | .S57 2021Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1. The Wisdom of Ben Sira: Contexts, Categories, and Approaches -- Wisdom as genre and as tradition in the Book of Sirach / John J. Colins -- Wisdom in transmission: Rethinking Sirach and Proverbs / Jacqueline Vayntrub -- Appearance versus reality and the personification of wisdom: Sirach's place in the Early Jewish sapiential tradition / Bradley C. Gregory -- Ben Sira's tour of the cosmos: Sir 42:15-43:33 as ekphrastic wisdom / A. Jordan Schmidt.
Part 2. The Hebrew Manuscripts of Sirach: Diversity, Continuity, and Transmission -- Sirach MS C revisited / Frank Ueberschaer -- Vav and Yod in the Hebrew Manuscripts A and B of Sirach / Eric D. Reymond -- Doublets in the Hebrew Manuscript B of Sirach / Jean-Sébastien Rey.
Part 3. Sages and Their Contexts: Hellenism, Hymns, and Pedagogy -- Where is Ezra? Ben Sira's surprising omission and the selective presentation in the praise of the ancestors / Samuel L. Adams -- Sages as singers in Sirach and the Second Temple period / David A. Skelton -- Sirach and Imperial history: A reassessment / James K. Aitken.
Part 4. The Reception of the Book and Figure of Ben Sira in Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- Ben Sira's pseudo-pseudepigraphy: Idealizations from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages / Benjamin G. Wright III and Eva Mroczek -- The act of reading Ben Sira as a generative context for Jewish liturgical poetry and the Book of Ben Sira itself / Matthew Goff -- Ben Sira in Ethiopia: The Andemta Commentary on Sirach 1 and 24 / Yonatan Binyam.
