Sirach and its Contexts: The Pursuit of Wisdom and Human Flourishing

By:

Adams, Samuel L and Goering, Greg Schmidt and Goff, Matthew [editors]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism - 196Publication details: Leiden Brill 2021Description: 301pISBN:

9789004447325

DDC classification:

BC34 AD171

Contents:

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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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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