Sirach and its contexts: the pursuit of wisdom and human flourishing
In Sirach and Its Contexts an international cohort of experts analyze this second-century BCE Jewish text in its various literary, historical, philosophical, textual, and political contexts. Humanistic in approach, these essays elicit an ancient tradition's teachings about human wisdom and flou...
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2021
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Journal for the study of Judaism (volume 196)
Year: 2021 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Sirach and its contexts: The Pursuit of Wisdom and Human Flourishing] (2021) (Beentjes, Pancratius C., 1946 -)
[Rezension von: Sirach and its contexts: The Pursuit of Wisdom and Human Flourishing] (2022) (Calduch-Benages, Nuria, 1957 -) |
| Series/Journal: | Journal for the study of Judaism Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism
volume 196 |
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| Summary: | In Sirach and Its Contexts an international cohort of experts analyze this second-century BCE Jewish text in its various literary, historical, philosophical, textual, and political contexts. Humanistic in approach, these essays elicit an ancient tradition's teachings about human wisdom and flourishing. Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Sirach and Its Contexts -- Part 1 The Wisdom of Ben Sira: Contexts, Categories, and Approaches -- Chapter 2 Wisdom as Genre and as Tradition in the Book of Sirach -- Chapter 3 Wisdom in Transmission: Rethinking Sirach and Proverbs -- Chapter 4 Appearance versus Reality and the Personification of Wisdom: Sirach's Place in the Early Jewish Sapiential Tradition -- Chapter 5 Ben Sira's Tour of the Cosmos: Sir 42:15-43:33 as Ekphrastic Wisdom -- Part 2 The Hebrew Manuscripts of Sirach: Diversity, Continuity, and Transmission -- Chapter 6 Sirach MS C Revisited -- Chapter 7 Vav and Yod in the Hebrew Manuscripts A and B of Sirach -- Chapter 8 Doublets in the Hebrew Manuscript B of Sirach -- Chapter 9 Where Is Ezra? Ben Sira's Surprising Omission and the Selective Presentation in the Praise of the Ancestors -- Chapter 10 Sages as Singers in Sirach and the Second Temple Period -- Chapter 11 Sirach and Imperial History: A Reassessment -- Part 4 The Reception of the Book and Figure of Ben Sira in Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- Chapter 12 Ben Sira's Pseudo-Pseudepigraphy: Idealizations from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages -- Chapter 13 The Act of Reading Ben Sira as a Generative Context for Jewish Liturgical Poetry and the Book of Ben Sira Itself -- Chapter 14 Ben Sira in Ethiopia: The Andǝmta Commentary on Sirach 1 and 24 -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Modern Authors. |
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| ISBN: | 9004447334 |