Title: Ben Sira and demotic wisdom /
Authors: Sanders, Jack T.
Date: 1983
Publisher: Scholars Press,
Physical description: x, 123 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: B
Contents: Introduction: International Hellenism -- 1. Ben Sira's relation to Judaic tradition -- The proverbial wisdom tradition -- Divergencies from proverbial wisdom characteristics -- Divergencies in specific details -- Non-proverbial wisdom -- The Torah -- 2. Ben Sira's relation to Hellenic tradition -- Preliminary observations -- Theognis -- Other Greek authors -- Hellenistic veneration of Isis -- Stoicism -- Greek themes and terms -- Ben Sira's manner of borrowing -- 3. Ben Sira's relation to Egyptian tradition -- Egyptian texts other than Papyrus Insinger -- Phibis (Papyrus Insinger) in Paul Humbert's analysis -- Phibis in Werner Fuss's analysis -- Further evidence of borrowing -- Ben Sira's manner of borrowing -- Possible relation to other demotic works.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Subject headings (LCSH): Bible. Ecclesiasticus--Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Bible. Old Testament. Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus--Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Wisdom literature--Relation to Egyptian literature.