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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... , 2002 ) . See also John J. Collins . Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age ( Louisville : John Knox , 1997 ) . relentless exploration of the problem posed by innocent suffering with 12 CHAPTER Ben Sira and Other Wisdom Books.
... suffering with re- gard to the alleged omnipotence and justice of God . These biblical wisdom books constitute part of the Jewish contribu- tion to the international wisdom movement well represented in ancient lit- erature from ...
... Library ( Philadelphia : Westminster , 1985 ) ; Gustavo Gutiérrez , On Job : God - Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent ( Maryknoll , Proverbs , Qoheleth / Ecclesiastes , and Sirach , it Ben Sira and Other Wisdom Books.
... suffering . The suffering of the wise and righteous Job calls into question a basic axiom of the wisdom movement : that wise and righteous persons always prosper . His three friends arrive ( 2 : 11-13 ) to offer sympathy and consola ...