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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Samuel Adams , Greg Schmidt Goering , Matthew J. GoffPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 196 Weight: 0.641kg ISBN: 9789004447325ISBN 10: 9004447326 Pages: 302 Publication Date: 18 March 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations, Figures and Tables Abbreviations 1 Introduction: Sirach and Its Contexts Greg Schmidt Goering Part 1: The Wisdom of Ben Sira: Contexts, Categories, and Approaches 2 Wisdom as Genre and as Tradition in the Book of Sirach John J. Collins 3 Wisdom in Transmission: Rethinking Sirach and Proverbs Jacqueline Vayntrub 4 Appearance versus Reality and the Personification of Wisdom: Sirach’s Place in the Early Jewish Sapiential Tradition Bradley C. Gregory 5 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 6 Sirach MS C Revisited Frank Ueberschaer 7 Vav and Yod in the Hebrew Manuscripts A and B of Sirach Eric D. Reymond 8 Doublets in the Hebrew Manuscript B of Sirach Jean-Sébastien Rey Part 3: Sages and Their Contexts: Hellenism, Hymns, and Pedagogy 9 Where Is Ezra? Ben Sira’s Surprising Omission and the Selective Presentation in the Praise of the Ancestors Samuel L. Adams 10 Sages as Singers in Sirach and the Second Temple Period David A. Skelton 11 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 12 Ben Sira’s Pseudo-Pseudepigraphy: Idealizations from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages Benjamin G. Wright III and Eva Mroczek 13 The Act of Reading Ben Sira as a Generative Context for Jewish Liturgical Poetry and the Book of Ben Sira Itself Matthew Goff 14 Ben Sira in Ethiopia: The Andǝmta Commentary on Sirach 1 and 24 Yonatan Binyam Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern AuthorsReviews""[E]l presente volumen resulta indispensable para todos los estudiosos y estudiosas del Sirácida, puesto que muestra con toda claridad por donde va la investigación actual y cuáles son los retos para el futuro."" Nuria Calduch-Benages, Gregorianum 103, no. 3 (2022) """[E]l presente volumen resulta indispensable para todos los estudiosos y estudiosas del Sirácida, puesto que muestra con toda claridad por donde va la investigación actual y cuáles son los retos para el futuro."" Nuria Calduch-Benages, Gregorianum 103, no. 3 (2022)" Author InformationSamuel L. Adams, Ph.D. (2006), Yale University, is the McNair Chair in Biblical Studies at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. He has published monographs on ancient Near Eastern wisdom literature and economics in the biblical world. He is currently writing a commentary on Ben Sira for the Anchor Yale Bible series. He edits the journal Interpretation. Greg Schmidt Goering, Th.D. (2006), Harvard Divinity School, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He researches ancient Jewish wisdom literature and is the author of Wisdom’s Root Revealed: Ben Sira and the Election of Israel (Brill, 2009). Matthew Goff, Ph.D. (2003), University of Chicago, is a Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism at Florida State University. His most recent publication is a volume co-edited with Samuel Adams, the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature (2020). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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