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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... 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 assumptions ...
... topics to develop a theme or even an ar- gument in the form of a paragraph . He especially values the " instruction " form in which he presents advice on various topics to " my son " or " my children . " See Chapter Four for an extended ...
... topics . There is no systematic arrangement of the say- ings , though there are some blocks on similar topics . The proverbs gener- ally convey secular wisdom with only occasional mentions of the God of Israel . The sayings are based on ...
... topics in no obvi- ous logical order . What makes this anthology distinctive is its experiential methodology and its critical outlook on standard topics treated by wisdom teachers . The author has been variously called a skeptic , a ...
... topics such as friendship , speech , rich and poor , women , and so forth . In 7 : 15-18 he takes direct aim at the law of ret- ribution , and recounts the results of his experiences : " there are righteous people who perish in their ...