Author: Tadeusz PenarPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Northwest Semitic Philology and the Hebrew Fragments of Ben Sira
Author: Tadeusz PenarPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Verbal System in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira
Author: Willem Th. van PeursenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047412303
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This volume is a revised and enlarged version of the author's Ph.D. dissertation (1999). It gives a comprehensive analysis of the morphosyntax and syntax of the tenses in the Hebrew text of Ben Sira. Due attention is paid to the heterogeneous character of the textual evidence (three manuscripts from the Desert of Judah and six mediaeval manuscripts from the Cairo Geniza), which complicates any linguistic study of Ben Sira. A descriptive analysis is complemented by a comparison with other contemporaneous, earlier, and later forms of Hebrew. It is argued that the Hebrew of Ben Sira is a literary language in its own right, rather than an imitation of Biblical Hebrew or a predecessor of Mishnaic Hebrew.
Scribal Culture in Ben Sira
Author: Lindsey A. AskinPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004372865
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In Scribal Culture in Ben Sira Lindsey A. Askin explores scribal culture as a framework for analysing features of textual referencing throughout the Book of Ben Sira (c.200 BCE), revealing new insights into how Ben Sira wrote his book of wisdom.
Job 29-31 in the Light of Northwest semitic
Author: Foreign Nations in the Wisdom of Ben Sira
Author: Marko MarttilaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110270110
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Ben Sira lived in an era when Hellenistic influences continued to spread in Palestine. The supreme political power was in the hands of foreign rulers. Under these circumstances it is no wonder that Ben Sira discusses the position of foreign nations in several passages. The tone varies due to the given context. This study demonstrates that Ben Sira’s relationship to foreign nations is best defined as “balanced”, as his attitude is neither thoroughly hostile nor that of uncritically embracing Gentiles. On the basis of certain passages, one can get the impression that even the foreigners could be recipients of the Torah. On the other hand, some nations were regarded by earlier biblical authors as archenemies of Israel, and these anti-elect people caused also Ben Sira’s anger to be provoked. Ben Sira was deeply rooted in Judaism but this did not prevent him from being open toward foreign influences as far as they were compatible with his religious and cultural heritage.
Wisdom, Cosmos, and Cultus in the Book of Sirach
Author: A. Jordan SchmidtPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311060017X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Despite the attention that has already been paid to the theme of creation in the book of Sirach, scholarship has yet to provide a comprehensive analysis of Ben Sira's instruction regarding the cosmic order and its role in the divine bestowal of wisdom upon human beings. This book, which consists of two parts, fills a lacuna in scholarship by offering such an analysis. The first part of this study examines Ben Sira's three main treatments of the created world, thus providing a comprehensive description and synthesis of Ben Sira's doctrine concerning the created order of the cosmos. The second part of this work analyzes the place of human beings in general, and the Jewish people in particular, within the cosmic order. This second part includes an analysis of the role of the created order in Ben Sira's wisdom instruction in 1:1-10 and 24:1-34 as well as an elucidation of the way in which his treatments of various kinds of people—civic leaders, wives, doctors, manual laborers, scribes, and cultic personnel—are integral to Ben Sira's doctrine of creation. This study demonstrates that the created order is a fundamental category that Ben Sira relies upon in articulating his instructions about wisdom and wise behavior.
Cosmos and Creation
Author: Michael W. DugganPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110677040
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
This volume contains essays by some of the leading scholars in the study of the Jewish religious ideas in the Second Temple period, that led up to the development of early forms of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. Close attention is paid to the cosmological ideas to be found in the Ancient Near East and in the Hebrew Bible and to the manner in which the translators of the Hebrew Bible into Greek reflected the creativity with which Judaism engaged Hellenistic ideas about the cosmos and the creation. The concepts of heaven and divine power, human mortality, the forces of nature, combat myths, and the philosophy of wisdom, as they occur in 2 Maccabees, Ben Sira, Wisdom of Solomon and Tobit, are carefully analysed and compared with Greek and Roman world-views. There are also critical examinations of Dead Sea scroll texts, early Jewish prayers and Hebrew liturgical poetry and how they these adopt, adapt and alter earlier ideas. The editors have included appreciations of two major figures who played important roles in the study of the Second Temple period and in the history and development of the ISDCL, namely, Otto Kaiser and Alexander Di Lella, who died recently and are greatly missed by those in the field.
Simon the High Priest in Sirach 50
Author: Otto MulderPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004123168
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The present exegitical study of the Hebrew and Greek texts of Sirach 50 provides an impressive illustration of Israels religion from 200-132 BCE, offering two pictures of Simon the High Priest, one by Ben Sira and one by his grandson.
Job in the Light of Northwest Semitic
Author: Walter L. MichelPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9788876533433
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966.
Rewriting Biblical History
Author: Jeremy CorleyPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110240947
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Old Testament texts frequently offer a theological view of history. This is very evident in the Books of Chronicles and in the final section of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus). Today there is renewed interest in both these works as significant theological and cultural Jewish documents from the centuries before Jesus. Both Chronicles and Ben Sira aim to recreate a national identity centered on temple piety. Some chapters in this volume consider the portrayal of Israelite kings like David, Hezekiah, and Josiah, while others deal with prophets like Samuel and Elijah.