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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... present literary forms in early postexilic times , from the 6th to the 3rd centuries B.c.e. , though some ( especially Proverbs ) may incorporate older material . There is debate about the settings in which these wisdom teachings were ...
... present book . Then there are Admonitions ( 22 : 17-24 : 22 ) , the Sayings of the Wise ( 24 : 23-34 ) , the Proverbs of Solomon ( 25 : 1-29 : 27 ) , the Words of Agur ( 30 : 1-33 ) , the Words of Lemuel's Mother ( 31 : 1-9 ) , and the ...
... present condition , curses the day of his birth and the night of his conception , and looks forward to his death as bringing rest and release from suffering . The suffering of the wise and righteous Job calls into question a basic axiom ...
... present life ( see 7:15 ) , and there is no reason to think that all will be made right in some form of life after death . The same fate — death — comes to all humans , whether they are righteous or wicked , wise or foolish ( 9 : 2 , 3 ) ...
... present and future . There are many other interesting items in 4QInstruction . One such feature is that the feminine singular imperatives and prohibitions in 4Q415 2 ii 1-9 indicate that here a woman is being addressed directly . We ...