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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... theological topics from the methodological perspectives of form criti- cism , social description , and biblical theology respectively . Thus it will in- troduce readers to how Ben Sira communicated his wise teachings , what sociological ...
... 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 proper response to the gift of wisdom is " fear of the Lord . " His theological genius was to ...
... theological significance of his book . In other words , our principal concerns are the author of the book of Sirach and how he commu- 5 All the Hebrew texts are collected by Pancratius C. Beentjes in The Book of Ben Sira . Vetus ...
... theological framework and their relatively clear ideas about God . The Jewish wisdom writers took King Solomon as their exem- plar and " patron saint . " According to 1 Kings 4 : 29-34 God gave Solomon " very great wisdom , discernment ...
... theological lenses through which readers are expected to view the practical advice given in the remaining sections . The heart of this book is the large anthology of individ- ual proverbs or maxims in the Proverbs of Solomon ( 10 : 1-22 ...