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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... Proverbs . Job , Qoheleth / Ecclesiastes , and the Song of Songs as canonical Scripture . Catholic and Orthodox Christians also in- clude Sirach and Wisdom . Most of these books are written in the literary persona of King Solomon , the ...
... ( proverbs , parables , etc. ) and biblical studies ( the revealed wisdom of the Hebrew Scriptures ) . While there seems to have been no set tuition ( " acquire wisdom for yourselves without money , " 51:25 ) , we can presume that ...
... proverb tradutorre traditore ( " a translator is a traitor " ) . Besides apologizing for having perhaps " rendered some phrases imperfectly , " he notes that " what was originally expressed in Hebrew does not have exactly the same sense ...
... Proverbs . It is in fact an anthology of smaller wisdom collections taking the form of instructions about wisdom ( chs . 1-9 ) and ex- amples of wisdom generally expressed in short sayings ( " proverbs " ) that encapsulate practical ...
... Proverbs The book of Proverbs is in fact a collection of several smaller wisdom texts.2 The whole collection is placed under the patronage of Solomon in the opening verse : " The proverbs of Solomon son of David , king of Israel " 2 See ...