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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... appear to have been a veteran or " professional " translator , but instead someone who took up his task out of family piety and belief in the abiding value of his grandfather's book . Nevertheless , the grandson was aware of the ...
... appears that all the Greek manuscripts contain a textual displacement by which Sirach 30 : 25-33 : 13a and 33 : 13b - 36 : 16a have changed places . Much of the best technical scholarship on Sirach has necessarily fo- cused on ...
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... appears in the book known as Qoheleth in its Hebrew version and Ecclesiastes in its Greek version . The word " Qoheleth " derives from the Hebrew verb " gather " ( qahal ) , and is traditionally rendered as " Preacher " or " Teacher ...
... appears in at least six fragmentary manuscripts and so ranks among the best represented works found at Qumran . The beginning of the text ( 4Q416 1 ) sets everything that follows in a cosmic ( " the host of heaven He has established ...