Wisdom's root revealed : Ben Sira and the election of Israel /

This monograph interprets the theme of election in the book of Sirach. Previous scholarship has often understood Ben Sira's worldview to be dualistic, and has approached the sage's correlation of Wisdom and Torah as either a nationalization of Wisdom or a universalization of Torah. By prob...

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Main Author: Goering, Greg Schmidt.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 139.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2010, ISBN: 9789004222731.

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Bible. > O.T. > Apocrypha. > Ecclesiasticus > Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Jews > Election, Doctrine of.

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