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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... Lord " ; Simon the Pharisee , dinner host to Jesus ; Legion , the Gerasene demoniac encountered so dramatically by Jesus . In this third set we find a similar contrast between apparently mighty and marginal characters : the prophet ...
... Lord saves " ) that was fairly common around the time of Jesus of Nazareth . Eleazar was his father's name , and Sira was the name of his grandfather . Sirach is the Greek form of the Hebrew name Sira ( with the final -ch representing ...
... Lord gave me my tongue as a reward , and I will praise him with it " ( 51:22 ) . The second part of the autobiographical poem ( 51 : 23-30 ) is an kind of advertisement or " info - mercial " for Ben Sira's wisdom school . He begins by ...
... Lord . " His theological genius was to integrate the secular wis- dom tradition based on human experience and practical insight with the particular revelation of the God of Israel in nature , the Torah , and history . As a wisdom ...
... Lord is the beginning of knowledge " ( 1 : 7 ) . And they repeat many times over the law of retribution according to which wise and righteous behavior leads to happiness and a long life while foolish and wicked behavior results in ...