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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... In a sense Jesus Ben Sira is also a literary persona like Solomon . Liter- ary scholars today distinguish between the real author and the implied author 1 of a book . For example , the real author CHAPTER Ben Sira and His Book.
... example , the real author of the novel Moby Dick is the nineteenth - century American writer Herman Melville . But the implied author or literary persona who tells the story of Captain Ahab and his quest for the great white whale " Moby ...
... example , it 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 ...
... example , the second " chapter " in " Amen - em - opet " warns against robbing the oppressed and being overbearing toward the disabled . This advice is echoed in Prov 22:22 : " Do not rob the poor because they are poor , or crush the ...
... example illustrates both the international character of the wisdom movement in antiquity and the distinctive religious insights that Jewish wisdom teachers brought to it . The biblical conviction that God hears the cries of the poor and ...