RT Book
T1 The sage in relation: family in Ben Sira's house of discipline
T2 Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies
A1 Montanaro, Andrew
LA English
PP Berlin Boston
PB De Gruyter
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1925287432
AB The Jewish sage Ben Sira links the partnership of the sage with personified Wisdom to his overall teaching on marriage and family. This study provides a detailed analysis of this connection, first, by describing the overlapping characteristics of fathers in families and sages among their students as seen through an examination of Ben Sira's use of metaphorical family language, whereby the sage takes the role of father in the pedagogical setting. This study then describes the spousal relationship between the sage and personified Wisdom, particularly as it appears alongside the marital instructions in Sir 23:16-26:18. This study further considers Ben Sira's privileged social position to influence the religious conviction of next generation Judaism and to strengthen Jewish youth against rising Hellenistic pressures that may tempt them away from Torah adherence. Ben Sira's solution then is found in his proposed vision of families, modeled after his pedagogical setting. Finally, Ben Sira's teaching is compared to other Second Temple texts, showing the importance of his context for his conception of family and the needs of his time. Thus, this study shows the relevance of Ben Sira's teaching for families as well as his distinctiveness among other Jewish texts
OP 316
NO Das Buch geht auf die Dissertation des Autors (The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 2019) zurück - Acknowledgements
SN 9783110753288
SN 9783110753363
K1 Wisdom
K1 Family Language
K1 Second Temple
K1 Religion / Judaism / History
K1 RELIGION / Biblical Studies / History & Culture
K1 RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Wisdom Literature
K1 LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
K1 RELIGION / Ancient
K1 Weisheitsliteratur
K1 Judentum zur Zeit des 2. Tempels
K1 Familie
K1 RELIGION / Biblical Reference / Language Study
K1 RELIGION / General
K1 RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
K1 Hochschulschrift
DO 10.1515/9783110753288