Praise Israel for wisdom and instruction
Subtitle: essays on Ben Sira and Wisdom, the Letter of Aristeas and the Septuagint
By: by Benjamin G. Wright III.
Series: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism -- v. 131
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9789004169081
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Apocrypha. -- Ecclesiasticus -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. -- O.T. -- Versions -- Septuagint; Letter of Aristeas; Wisdom literature -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Wisdom and women at Qumran; title: From generation to generation: the sage as father in early Jewish literature; title: The categories of rich and poor in the Qumran sapiential literature; title: "Who has been tested by gold and found perfect?": Ben Sira's discourse of riches and poverty (with Claudia V. Camp); title: "Fear the Lord and honor the priest": Ben Sira as defender of the Jerusalem priesthood; title: "Put the nations in fear of you": Ben Sira and the problem of foreign rule; title: Wisdom, instruction, and social location in Ben Sira and 1 Enoch; title: Ben Sira on the sage as exemplar; title: B. Sanhedrin 100b and rabbinic knowledge of Ben Sira; title: The Jewish scriptures in Greek: the Septuagint in the context of ancient translation activity; title: The meeting of Hebrew-biblical and Hellenistic-Roman culture; title: Access to the source: Cicero, Ben Sira, the Septuagint, and their audiences; title: The Letter of Aristeas and the reception history of the Septuagint; title: Translation as scripture: the Septuagint in Aristeas and Philo; title: Three Jewish ritual practices in Aristeas.