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The Expanded Text of Ecclesiasticus

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

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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.

Wisdom, Cosmos, and Cultus in the Book of Sirach

Author : A. Jordan Schmidt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110600223

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Wisdom, Cosmos, and Cultus in the Book of Sirach by A. Jordan Schmidt Pdf

Despite the attention that has already been paid to the theme of creation in the book of Sirach, scholarship has yet to provide a comprehensive analysis of Ben Sira's instruction regarding the cosmic order and its role in the divine bestowal of wisdom upon human beings. This book, which consists of two parts, fills a lacuna in scholarship by offering such an analysis. The first part of this study examines Ben Sira's three main treatments of the created world, thus providing a comprehensive description and synthesis of Ben Sira's doctrine concerning the created order of the cosmos. The second part of this work analyzes the place of human beings in general, and the Jewish people in particular, within the cosmic order. This second part includes an analysis of the role of the created order in Ben Sira's wisdom instruction in 1:1-10 and 24:1-34 as well as an elucidation of the way in which his treatments of various kinds of people—civic leaders, wives, doctors, manual laborers, scribes, and cultic personnel—are integral to Ben Sira's doctrine of creation. This study demonstrates that the created order is a fundamental category that Ben Sira relies upon in articulating his instructions about wisdom and wise behavior.

Texts and Contexts of the Book of Sirach / Texte und Kontexte des Sirachbuches

Author : Gerhard Karner,Frank Ueberschaer,Burkard M. Zapff
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884142294

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Texts and Contexts of the Book of Sirach / Texte und Kontexte des Sirachbuches by Gerhard Karner,Frank Ueberschaer,Burkard M. Zapff Pdf

Now available from SBL Press Thirteen essays, some in German and others in English, tackle the complicated history of textual transmission of Sirach. This book presents the proceedings of an international conference held in 2014 in Eichstaett, Germany on the text of Ben Sira within its historical contexts.Contributors include James K. Aitken, Pierre-Maurice Bogaert, Franz Böhmisch, Anthony J. Forte SJ, Jan Joosten, Otto Kaiser, Siegfried Kreuzer, Jean-Sébastien Rey, Werner Urbanz, Knut Usener, Oda Wischmeyer, Markus Witte, Benjamin G. Wright, and Burkard M. Zapff. Features: A sociocultural and theological history of Sirach Philological and textual problems of the Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions Translation strategies based on Greek, Syriac, and Latin text traditions and related hermeneutical questions

The Book of Sirach in the Armenian Biblical Tradition

Author : Garegin Hambardzumyan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110428964

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The Book of Sirach in the Armenian Biblical Tradition by Garegin Hambardzumyan Pdf

The extreme complexity of Sirach’s text at times makes it almost impossible to come to one clear conclusion as regards certain issues. There are numerous differences between various translations of this deuterocanonical text. In addition, the Armenian translation, being a textual witness to not one but multiple parent texts, has its own complications. This research provides a sustained theological reading of the Armenian text of Sirach on the basis of Yakob Nalean’s commentary written in the 18th century. At the same time it places a great emphasis on the textual evaluation of the various versions of Sirach in Armenian. In this respect an attempt has been made to display the unique features of the Armenian Sirach within the wider scope of the scholarship of this biblical text. Through a comprehensive linguistic and theological analysis of some major parts of Sirach in Armenian, this study assesses the extent to which this book was in use amongst Armenians throughout the centuries. In particular, the numerous references to Sirach in both Armenian and non-Armenian patristic literature are examined, with the aim of dating the first translations into Armenian and tracing the development of the text in the Armenian medieval schools.

The Embroidered Bible: Studies in Biblical Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Honour of Michael E. Stone

Author : Lorenzo DiTommaso,Matthias Henze,William Adler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004357211

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The Embroidered Bible: Studies in Biblical Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Honour of Michael E. Stone by Lorenzo DiTommaso,Matthias Henze,William Adler Pdf

This Festschrift contains original essays in honour of Michael E. Stone on Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, in its broadest sense: apocryphal texts, traditions, and themes from Second-Temple times to the High Middle Ages, in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Like an Everlasting Signet Ring

Author : Bradley C. Gregory
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110223668

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Like an Everlasting Signet Ring by Bradley C. Gregory Pdf

This work explores the theological and social dimensions of generosity in the book of Sirach and contextualizes them within the culture and thought of Second Temple Judaism. Ben Sira's understanding of generosity is predicated on the tension between affirming the classic wisdom principle of retributive justice and recognizing its breakdown in the socio-economic circumstances of Seleucid Judea. He forges a new Wisdom-Torah ethic of mercy in which giving generously is an integral part of living "the good life". While loans and surety are essential practices, almsgiving is the preeminent act of generosity. The fundamental theological logic at work consists in viewing the poor as proxies for God and is based on the economic structure of Proverbs 19:17. Giving to the poor is, in reality, a deposit in a heavenly treasury and will pay future dividends. By situating Ben Sira's view of almsgiving within the wider framework of retributive justice and its breakdown, new light is shed on the practical tensions regarding the extent of almsgiving and its relationship to the support of the Jerusalem priesthood. The various dynamics of Ben Sira's thought on generosity are situated within the broader Hellenistic world and in their foundational role for later Jewish and Christian thought.

The Texts and Versions of the Book of Ben Sira

Author : Jean-Sébastien Rey,Jan Joosten
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004207189

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The Texts and Versions of the Book of Ben Sira by Jean-Sébastien Rey,Jan Joosten Pdf

The present volume brings together studies by some of the best specialists on the texts and versions of the Book of Ben Sira. Each textual form is placed in its own historical context and analysed in regard to what explains the typical changes it contains.

Studies in the Book of Ben Sira

Author : Géza Xeravits,József Zsengellér
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004169067

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Studies in the Book of Ben Sira by Géza Xeravits,József Zsengellér Pdf

The volume publishes the papers read at an international conference on the Book of Ben Sira, held at the Shime'on Centre, Pápa, Hungary. Renowned specialists of the field treat among others various questions of early Jewish wisdom thought, the interpretation of history, and canon forming.

Scribes and Their Remains

Author : Craig A. Evans,Jeremiah J. Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567693457

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Scribes and Their Remains by Craig A. Evans,Jeremiah J. Johnston Pdf

Scribes and Their Remains begins with an introductory essay by Stanley Porter which addresses the principal theme of the book: the text as artifact. The rest of the volume is then split into two major sections. In the first, five studies appear on the theme of 'Scribes, Letters, and Literacy.' In the first of these Craig A. Evans offers a lengthy piece that argues that the archaeological, artifactual, and historical evidence suggests that New Testament autographs and first copies may well have remained in circulation for one century or more, having the effect of stabilizing the text. Other pieces in the section address literacy, orality and paleography of early Christian papyri. In the second section there are five pieces on 'Writing, Reading, and Abbreviating Christian Scripture.' These range across numerous topics, including an examination of the stauros (cross) as a nomen sacrum.

Theology and Anthropology in the Book of Sirach

Author : Bonifatia Gesche,Christian Lustig,Gabriel Rabo
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884144243

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Theology and Anthropology in the Book of Sirach by Bonifatia Gesche,Christian Lustig,Gabriel Rabo Pdf

New research on Sirach for scholars and students The present volume of English and German essays includes the proceedings of an international conference held in Eichstaett, Germany, in 2017. Themes of creation, emotions, life, death, wisdom, knowledge, the individual and society, family, gender, mercy, justice, and freedom are but a few of the topics that contributors explore in this new collection. Essays explore the rich intertextual connections between Sirach and other biblical texts. Features: Attention to theological distinctions presented in the Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions of the book of Sirach Examination of the reception of Sirach in the New Testament and the early modern era English abstracts for German-language essays and German abstracts for English-language essays

The Wisdom of Ben Sira

Author : Angelo Passaro,Giuseppe Bellia
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110211269

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The Wisdom of Ben Sira by Angelo Passaro,Giuseppe Bellia Pdf

The Book of Sirach raises many questions: philological, exegetical, literary, historical, theological. There were even confessional questions which divided the traditions of synagogues and churches. It is, therefore, a fascinating book, located on the edges of the canon. Does the book attempt to repair the harm done by the erosive criticism of Job and Qoheleth, or is it the work of a thoughtful interpreter who, in a time of change, seeks to bear the tradition towards the new situation emerging from the Hellenistic Diaspora? Is it a book which aims at the restoration of the true faith against the autonomous questing of human wisdom, or is it merely a sincere, if shrewd, experiment at dialogue between the legitimate reasoning of the world and the wisdom given in the Law? According to a well-tried methodology of juxtaposing the specialists of different schools, this volume presents an up to date consideration of historical, exegetical and theological research.

The Verbal System in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira

Author : Willem Th. van Peursen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789047412304

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The Verbal System in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira by Willem Th. van Peursen Pdf

This volume is a revised and enlarged version of the author's Ph.D. dissertation (1999). It gives a comprehensive analysis of the morphosyntax and syntax of the tenses in the Hebrew text of Ben Sira. Due attention is paid to the heterogeneous character of the textual evidence (three manuscripts from the Desert of Judah and six mediaeval manuscripts from the Cairo Geniza), which complicates any linguistic study of Ben Sira. A descriptive analysis is complemented by a comparison with other contemporaneous, earlier, and later forms of Hebrew. It is argued that the Hebrew of Ben Sira is a literary language in its own right, rather than an imitation of Biblical Hebrew or a predecessor of Mishnaic Hebrew.

The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity

Author : Eva Mroczek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190279837

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The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity by Eva Mroczek Pdf

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed a world of early Jewish writing larger than the Bible: from multiple versions of biblical texts to 'revealed' books not found in our canon. But despite this diversity, the way we read Second Temple Jewish literature remains constrained by two anachronistic categories: a theological one, 'Bible,' and a bibliographic one, 'book.' 'The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity' suggests ways of thinking about how Jews understood their own literature before these categories had emerged.

Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age

Author : David Collins,John Joseph Collins
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567086232

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Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age by David Collins,John Joseph Collins Pdf

In this exploration of Jewish wisdom during the Hellenistic period, internationally renowned scholar John J. Collins examines the books of Sirach and the Wisdom of Solomon, the Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides, and the recently discovered Qumran Sapiential A text from the Dead Sea Scrolls - offering one of the first such examinations of this text in print. This commentary is a compelling analysis of these important texts and their continuing traditions.

Language and Interpretation in the Syriac Text of Ben Sira

Author : W. Th Van Peursen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004163942

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Language and Interpretation in the Syriac Text of Ben Sira by W. Th Van Peursen Pdf

After subjecting the Syriac translation of Ben Sira to traditional philological analysis the author conducts computer-assisted linguistic studies of phrases, clauses and texts. He reaches particularly interesting proposals for a corpus-based description of phrase structure based on a so-called maximum matrix.