Author : Conleth Kearns,Gerard J. Norton,Maurice Gilbert,Núria Calduch-Benages
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9783110252583
The Expanded Text of Ecclesiasticus by Conleth Kearns,Gerard J. Norton,Maurice Gilbert,Núria Calduch-Benages Pdf
In spite of its importance for the textual history and the theological significance of the Book of Ben Sira, especially in its two different Greek versions, the 1951 doctoral thesis of Conleth Kearns has never been published and is only in circulation in photocopies. Kearns brought together a great quantity of textual and theological observations on the additions to the first Greek version concerning eschatology which are not to be found anywhere else until now. He has actually shown that these additions are part of a whole pseudepigraphic literature. That is the reason why this monograph deserves publication, even after sixty years.