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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... appropriate 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.
... traditions of ancient Near Eastern wisdom and the Hebrew Bible , and he saw his vocation to be handing on those traditions to the next genera- tions . However , Ben Sira's instinctive conservatism and traditionalism were balanced by his ...
... traditional by nature . These events must have been greatly disturbing to him , though he makes no obvious direct comments on them in his book ( thus suggesting that it was already written before these events took place ) . Ben Sira and ...
... tradition the book is customarily called " Ecclesiasticus , " which means " church book , " probably a statement about its acceptance into the Christian canon of Scripture . The Hebrew manu- scripts give no firm indication of the book's ...
... tradition of wisdom seekers and teachers , and he thanks God for allowing him to fill his own winepress with grapes . In 34 : 9-12 he notes that his search for wisdom has involved travel ( " I have seen many things in my travels , " 34 ...