Ben Sira in Conversation with Traditions : : A Festschrift for Prof. Núria Calduch-Benages on the Occasion of Her 65th Birthday / / ed. by Francis M. Macatangay, Francisco-Javier Ruiz-Ortiz.

This volume of essays on Ben Sira is a Festschrift on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Prof. Nuria Calduch-Benages. The volume gathers the latest studies on Ben Sira's relationship with other Jewish traditions. With a variety of methods and approaches, the volume explores Ben Sira's in...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies , 47
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 382 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Select Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Part I: Ben Sira in Conversation with the Torah
  • The Creation of Humanity in HebrewWisdom Literature of the Second Century BCE
  • Torah, Paideia, and Sophia in Ben Sira
  • Ben Sira’s Portrayal of Aaron and Phinehas (Sir 45:6–25): An Interaction between Tradition and Innovation
  • “Do Not Defraud the Life of the Poor”: Notes on the Greek of Sir 4:1–10
  • Part II: Ben Sira in Conversation with the Prophets
  • Ben Sira and Ezekiel
  • “Bread to the Hungry and Clothes to the Naked”: A History of a Prophetic- Sapiential Motif from Tobit to the Syriac of Ben Sira
  • The Metaphor of a Woman Giving Birth: The Book of Ben Sira in the Light of Prophetic Literature
  • Banquet of Life in Ben Sira and Hosea: Intertextual Links between Sir 24:12–23 and Hos 14:5–10
  • Part III: Ben Sira in Conversation with Wisdom Traditions
  • “Yet, No One Remembered that Poor Man”: Qoheleth and Ben Sira on the Wisdom of the Poor
  • Living with Wild Animals: A Study of the Imagery in Sir 25:15–16
  • Keywords: women/wives, animal imagery, metaphors, Ben Sira, anger
  • Family Ethos and Wise Behavior in Proverbs, Sirach, and Vietnamese Folk Sayings
  • Part IV: Ben Sira in Coversation with Some of the Literature of the Second Temple
  • Jerusalem in the Books of Tobit and Ben Sira
  • Wisdom in Disguise and the Heroism of Widows: Ben Sira and Judean Traditions (Sir 4:1–19)
  • Path Dependence and Institutional Change: The Portrayal of Alcimus and Jonathan as High Priests in 1 Maccabees
  • A Devilish Parallel: Sir 15:14 in its Hebrew Reception
  • Part V: Later Authors in Conversation with the Book of Ben Sira
  • The Book of Ben Sira From a Reception- Historical Perspective: Hubert Frankemölle’s Commentary on the Letter of James
  • Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak, and Slow to Anger (Jas 1:19 and Sir 5:11)
  • Reliability and Gentleness: Moses, Jesus, and the Disciple
  • “Useful for Instruction”: The Popularity of Sirach in Christian Egypt
  • M. H. Segal (1875–1968) and his Abiding Interest in Ben Sira
  • Index of References
  • Index of Authors