TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adams, Samuel L and Goering, Greg Schmidt and Goff, Matthew
TI  - Sirach and its Contexts: The Pursuit of Wisdom and Human Flourishing
SN  - 9789004447325
U1  - BC34 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
N1  - PART 1
The Wisdom of Ben Sira: Contexts, Categories, and Approaches
1. Wisdom as Genre and as Tradition in the Book of Sirach
John J. Collins

2. Wisdom in Transmission: Rethinking Sirach and Proverbs 
Jacqueline Vayntrub
3. Appearance versus Reality and the Personification of Wisdom:
Sirach's Place in the Early Jewish Sapiential Tradition 
Bradley C. Gregory
4. Ben Sira's Tour of the Cosmos: Sir 42:15-43:33 as Ekphrastic Wisdom
A. Jordan Schmidt

PART 2
The Hebrew Manuscripts of Sirach: Diversity, Continuity,
and Transmission
5.  Sirach MS C Revisited
Frank Ueberschaer

6. Vav and Yod in the Hebrew Manuscripts A and B of Sirach 
Eric D. Reymond
7.  Doublets in the Hebrew Manuscript B of Sirach 
Jean-Sébastien Rey
PART 3
Sages and Their Contexts: Hellenism, Hymns, and Pedagogy
8. Where Is Ezra? Ben Sira's Surprising Omission and the Selective
Presentation in the Praise of the Ancestors
Samuel L. Adams

9. Sages as Singers in Sirach and the Second Temple Period 
David A. Skelton
10.  Sirach and Imperial History: A Reassessment 
James K. Aitken
PART 4
The Reception of the Book and Figure of Ben Sira in Antiquity
and the Middle Ages

11. Ben Sira's Pseudo-Pseudepigraphy: Idealizations from Antiquity to the
Early Middle Ages 
Benjamin G. Wright III and Eva Mroczek
12. The Act of Reading Ben Sira as a Generative Context for Jewish
Liturgical Poetry and the Book of Ben Sira Itself 
Matthew Goff
13. Ben Sira in Ethiopia: The Andamta Commentary on Sirach 
and 24 
Yonatan Binyam
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