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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... Jewish wisdom teacher of the late third and early second century B.C.E ) communicated his wisdom teachings , which psycho- logical and sociological assumptions underlay his teachings , and what they might contribute to the personal and ...
... Jewish wisdom teacher named Jesus Ben Sira . He lived and worked in Jerusalem in the late third and early sec- ond century B.c.e. There he taught young men who wanted to become like him — a scribe , someone who not only could read and ...
... Jewish wisdom book that we have from antiquity . It is the only wisdom book that names its real au- thor . It provides a window onto life in the land of Israel at a pivotal point in Jewish history . It illustrates how and what ancient ...
... Jewish and 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 ...
... Jews of Jerusalem and issued in the revolt led by the Jewish Maccabee family in 164 B.c.e. ( see Daniel , and 1 and 2 Maccabees ) . If he wrote his book around 180 B.c.e. , Ben Sira of Jerusalem would certainly have experienced the ...