Ben Sira in Conversation with Traditions

A Festschrift for Prof. Núria Calduch-Benages on the Occasion of Her 65th Birthday

Francis M. Macatangay, Francisco-Javier Ruiz-Ortiz, Francis M. Macatangay, Francisco-Javier Ruiz-Ortiz

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110762181
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

This volume of essays on Ben Sira is a Festschrift on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Prof. Nuria Calduch-Benages.

The volume gathers the latest studies on Ben Sira's relationship with other Jewish traditions. With a variety of methods and approaches, the volume explores Ben Sira's interpretation of received traditions, his views on the prevailing issues of his time, and the subsequent reception of his work.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Contents
• Introduction
• Select Bibliography
• Contributors
• Part I: Ben Sira in Conversation with the Torah
• The Creation of Humanity in HebrewWisdom Literature of the Second Century BCE
• Torah, Paideia, and Sophia in Ben Sira
• Ben Sira’s Portrayal of Aaron and Phinehas (Sir 45:6–25): An Interaction between Tradition and Innovation
• “Do Not Defraud the Life of the Poor”: Notes on the Greek of Sir 4:1–10
• Part II: Ben Sira in Conversation with the Prophets
• Ben Sira and Ezekiel
• “Bread to the Hungry and Clothes to the Naked”: A History of a Prophetic- Sapiential Motif from Tobit to the Syriac of Ben Sira
• The Metaphor of a Woman Giving Birth: The Book of Ben Sira in the Light of Prophetic Literature
• Banquet of Life in Ben Sira and Hosea: Intertextual Links between Sir 24:12–23 and Hos 14:5–10
• Part III: Ben Sira in Conversation with Wisdom Traditions
• “Yet, No One Remembered that Poor Man”: Qoheleth and Ben Sira on the Wisdom of the Poor
• Living with Wild Animals: A Study of the Imagery in Sir 25:15–16
• Keywords: women/wives, animal imagery, metaphors, Ben Sira, anger
• Family Ethos and Wise Behavior in Proverbs, Sirach, and Vietnamese Folk Sayings
• Part IV: Ben Sira in Coversation with Some of the Literature of the Second Temple
• Jerusalem in the Books of Tobit and Ben Sira
• Wisdom in Disguise and the Heroism of Widows: Ben Sira and Judean Traditions (Sir 4:1–19)
• Path Dependence and Institutional Change: The Portrayal of Alcimus and Jonathan as High Priests in 1 Maccabees
• A Devilish Parallel: Sir 15:14 in its Hebrew Reception
• Part V: Later Authors in Conversation with the Book of Ben Sira
• The Book of Ben Sira From a Reception- Historical Perspective: Hubert Frankemölle’s Commentary on the Letter of James
• Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak, and Slow to Anger (Jas 1:19 and Sir 5:11)
• Reliability and Gentleness: Moses, Jesus, and the Disciple
• “Useful for Instruction”: The Popularity of Sirach in Christian Egypt
• M. H. Segal (1875–1968) and his Abiding Interest in Ben Sira
• Index of References
• Index of Authors