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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A Biblical Guide to Living Wisely Daniel J. Harrington. CHAPTER ONE Ben Sira and His Book The subject of this volume is a Jewish wisdom teacher named Jesus Ben Sira . He lived and worked in Jerusalem in the late third and early sec- ond ...
... Sira we are neces- sarily dealing primarily with the literary persona of Ben Sira . However , there is every reason to assume that behind this book there stood a Jewish wisdom teacher who flourished in what we call the early second ...
... Sira was deeply rooted in the traditions of ancient Near Eastern wisdom and the Hebrew Bible , and he saw his vocation to be handing on those traditions to the next genera- tions . However , Ben Sira's instinctive conservatism and ...
... Sira of Jerusalem would certainly have experienced the transition from Ptolemaic to Seleucid rule around 200 B.c.e. and the turmoil associated with it . But he had probably died before matters became even more tumultuous with Antiochus ...
... Sira . " Most scholars today refer to the book as " Sirach " and to its author as " Ben Sira . " They use the Hebrew word for " son " ( ben ) and the grand- father's name because Jesus and Eleazar were common names while " Sira " was ...