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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... original scholarship , they are geared to be stimulating to both students and established scholars , perhaps resulting in some fruitful collaborative learn- ing adventures . The series also developed from a widely shared sense that all ...
... original title , but ( if there was one at all ) it was probably something like " Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sira . " Most scholars today refer to the book as " Sirach " and to its author as " Ben Sira . " They use the Hebrew word for ...
... original became effectively lost for sev- eral centuries . 4 For information about these books and their significance see Daniel J. Harrington , In- vitation to the Apocrypha ( Grand Rapids : Eerdmans , 1999 ) . In 1896 and thereafter ...
... original , though there is some evidence of retranslation from the Syriac version . In 1964 several chapters of the Hebrew text were found at Masada , the famous outpost in Israel where Jewish rebels made their last stand against the ...
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