Sirach and Its Contexts : The Pursuit of Wisdom and Human Flourishing /

Sirach and Its Contexts : The Pursuit of Wisdom and Human Flourishing /

In Sirach and Its Contexts an international cohort of experts on the book of Sirach locate this second-century BCE Jewish wisdom text in its various contexts: literary, historical, philosophical, textual, cultural, and political. First compiled by a Jewish sage around 185 BCE, this instruction enjoy...

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Other Authors: Adams, Samuel (Editor), Goff, Matthew J. (Editor), Goering, Greg (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 196.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441019.

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Wisdom literature > Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Call Number: BS1765.52

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction: Sirach and Its Contexts
  • Greg Schmidt Goering
  • Part 1: The Wisdom of Ben Sira: Contexts, Categories, and Approaches
  • 2 Wisdom as Genre and as Tradition in the Book of Sirach
  • John J. Collins
  • 3 Wisdom in Transmission: Rethinking Sirach and Proverbs
  • Jacqueline Vayntrub
  • 4 Appearance versus Reality and the Personification of Wisdom: Sirach's Place in the Early Jewish Sapiential Tradition
  • Bradley C. Gregory
  • 5 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
  • 6 Sirach MS C Revisited
  • Frank Ueberschaer
  • 7 Vav and Yod in the Hebrew Manuscripts A and B of Sirach
  • Eric D. Reymond
  • 8 Doublets in the Hebrew Manuscript B of Sirach
  • Jean-Sébastien Rey
  • Part 3: Sages and Their Contexts: Hellenism, Hymns, and Pedagogy
  • 9 Where Is Ezra? Ben Sira's Surprising Omission and the Selective Presentation in the Praise of the Ancestors
  • Samuel L. Adams
  • 10 Sages as Singers in Sirach and the Second Temple Period
  • David A. Skelton
  • 11 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
  • 12 Ben Sira's Pseudo-Pseudepigraphy: Idealizations from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
  • Benjamin G. Wright III and Eva Mroczek
  • 13 The Act of Reading Ben Sira as a Generative Context for Jewish Liturgical Poetry and the Book of Ben Sira Itself
  • Matthew Goff
  • 14 Ben Sira in Ethiopia: The Andǝmta Commentary on Sirach 1 and 24
  • Yonatan Binyam
  • Index of Ancient Sources
  • Index of Modern Authors.