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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... and constructive for interreligious dialogue today , since most world religions have their own rich wisdom traditions . Jesus Ben Sira is often called a conservative and traditionalist 2 | Jesus Ben Sira of Jerusalem.
... religious elite among the Jewish exile com- munity there to return to Jerusalem ( see Isaiah 40-55 ) . The rebuilding of Jerusalem and its Temple as well as the restoration of the Jewish commu- nity in the late sixth century B.c.e. was ...
... religious repression upon the Jews of Jerusalem and issued in the revolt led by the Jewish Maccabee family in 164 B.c.e. ( see Daniel , and 1 and 2 Maccabees ) . If he wrote his book around 180 B.c.e. , Ben Sira of Jerusalem would ...
... religious traditions embodied in the Hebrew Scriptures . Ben Sira's basic and most important theological insight is that the highest form of wisdom is to be found in the Torah ( the first five books of the Hebrew Bible ) and that the ...