Texts and contexts of the Book of Sirach
Subtitle: Texte und kontexte des Sirachbuches
By: edited by Gerhard Karner, Frank Ueberschaer, and Burkard M. Zapff
Series: Septuagint and cognate studies -- number 66; Septuagint and cognate studies series -- no. 66.
Publisher: SBL Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781628371826; 9780884142300
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Congresses; Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Bibel; Ecclesiasticus
Description: "Thirteen essays, some in German and others in English, tackle the complicated history of textual transmission of the Book of Ben Sira. This book presents the proceedings of an international conference held in 2014 in Eichstaett/Germany on the text of Ben Sira within its historical contexts"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Key aspects and themes in recent scholarship on the Book of Ben Sira  -- Markus Witte; title: Der soziokulturelle Hintergrund des Sirachbuches  -- Siegfried Kreuzer; title: Jesus Sirach: Ein Jüdischer Weisheitslehrer in hellenistischer Zeit  -- Otto Kaiser; title: Die Konstruktion von Kultur im Sirachbuch  -- Oda Wischmeyer; title: Scribal practices in the Ben Sira Hebrew Manuscript A and codicological remarks  -- Jean-Sébastien Rey; title: The literary and linguistic subtlety of the Greek version of Sirach  -- James K. Aitken; title: Das Griechisch des Jesus Sirach  -- Knut Usener; title: Sirach 10:1-18: Some observations on the work of the translator  -- Benjamin G. Wright; title: Language and textual history of Syriac Ben Sira  -- Jan Joosten; title: Die Vorlage der syrischen Sirachübersetzung und die gereimte hebräische Paraphrase zu Ben Sira aus der Ben-Ezra-Geniza  -- Franz Böhmisch; title: Einige hermeneutische Boebachtungen zur syrischen Version des Sirach  -- Burkard M. Zapff; title: Der lateinische text des Ecclesiasticus: Von Philipp Thielmann bis zu Walter Thiele  -- Pierre-Maurice Bogaert; title: Plerique codices, nonnulli codices: Ambrose's Biblical Text: the case of Ben Sirach and the Canticum Canticorum  -- Anthony J. Forte; title: Sir 51,1-12: Anhang oder Knotenpunkt? -- Werner Urbanz.