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] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies ,
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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