The Book of Ben Sira in Modern Research
Subtitle: Proceedings of the First International Ben Sira Conference, 28-31 July 1996, Soesterberg, Netherlands (Beihefte ... Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 255.)
Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc
Published: September 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9783110156737
Subjects: Criticism & exegesis of sacred texts; Judaism; Old Testament - Single Book Studies; Criticism, interpretation, etc; O.T.; Religion; O.T; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Apocrypha.; Bible; Biblical Commentary - Old Testament; Apocrypha; Bible.; Congresses; Ecclesiasticus
First sentence: It is now over twenty years since I took over the curatorship of the Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library and developed a project to conserve, research and publish those remarkable fragments that were somewhat unceremoniously dubbed by their discoverer, Solomon Schechter, "a hoard of Hebrew manuscripts".1