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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... regarded as canonical Scripture by Catholic and Orthodox Christians . While Jews and Protestants do not in- clude Sirach in their canons of Scripture , many of them do acknowledge it as a wise and edifying book . Wisdom books constitute ...
... regarded as the first " theologian " in the Jewish and Christian traditions because he joined together secular wisdom and divine revelation ( Scripture ) . This deeply conservative and traditional Jewish wis- dom teacher laid out the ...
... regarded it as important for himself and for the good of society in general . The work known as the " Wisdom of Ben Sira " is generally classified as a " wisdom book . " It assumes a situation in which Ben Sira , an experi- enced sage ...
... regarded Sirach as " Sacred Scripture . " When Martin Luther and other early Protestant Reformers ( following a suggestion by Jerome ) decided in the sixteenth century to limit their Old Testament canon to the Jewish Hebrew canon ...
... regarded as from the early post - exilic period : that is , from the 6th to the 4th cen- turies B.c.e. They offer readers the key concepts that can help them make sense of and assimilate the many wise teachings that follow . These poems ...