Jesus Ben Sira of Jerusalem: A Biblical Guide to Living WiselyLiturgical Press, 2005 - 142 pagini Questions of vocation and character formation become important to students as they continue to receive higher education. Jesus Ben Sira combines secular wisdom from Near Eastern wisdom sources and divine revelations from the Hebrew Bible to create the Book of Sirach. By applying form criticism to Ben Sira's book, Daniel J. Harrington provides students with historical information of the psychological and sociological context underlying Ben Sira's teachings, as well as an understanding of how Ben Sira's ancient wisdom can contribute to personal and social formation in the 21st century. Chapters include Ben Sira and His Book, Ben Sira and Other Wisdom Books, Reading Ben Sira's Book, Ben Sira's Ways of Teaching, Ben Sira's Social World, Ben Sira's Abiding Wisdom, as well as references, suggestions for further study, and an index. Daniel J. Harrington, S.J., Ph.D., is a professor of New Testament at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has written numerous scholarly works, including Paul on the Mystery of Israel, The Gospel of Matthew, and The Gospel According to Matthewpublished by the Liturgical Press. This book is part of the series Interfaces. |
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... Christians . While Jews and Protestants do not in- clude Sirach in their canons of Scripture , many of them do acknowledge it as a wise and edifying book . Wisdom books constitute a large part of the Bible . Jews and Chris- tians alike ...
... Christian traditions because he joined together secular wisdom and divine revelation ( Scripture ) . This deeply conservative and traditional Jewish wis- dom teacher laid out the path on which much greater thinkers such as Philo of ...
... Christian canon of Scripture . The Hebrew manu- scripts give no firm indication of the book's original title , but ( if there was one at all ) it was probably something like " Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sira . " Most scholars today ...
... Christian churches generally followed the wider Greek Septuagint canon , and for fif- teen centuries almost all Christians regarded Sirach as " Sacred Scripture . " When Martin Luther and other early Protestant Reformers ( following a ...
... Christian canon of Sacred Scripture and has remained such in the Catholic and Orthodox churches . It is also read and respected by Jews and Protestant Christians , though they do not regard it as Sacred Scripture . Ben Sira's goal in ...