The Expanded Text of Ecclesiasticus

The Expanded Text of Ecclesiasticus
Author: Conleth Kearns
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2011
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 3110252589

In spite of its importance for the textual history and the theological significance of the Book of Ben Sira, especially in its two different Greek versions, the 1951 doctoral thesis of Conleth Kearns has never been published and is only in circulation in photocopies. Kearns brought together a great quantity of textual and theological observations on the additions to the first Greek version concerning eschatology which are not to be found anywhere else until now. He has actually shown that these additions are part of a whole pseudepigraphic literature. That is the reason why this monograph deserves publication, even after sixty years.

Asiatic Review

Asiatic Review
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 962
Release: 1897
Genre: Asia
ISBN:

Beginning in 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.

Book of Ben Sira in Hebrew

Book of Ben Sira in Hebrew
Author: P.C. Beentjes
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2014-09-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004275924

This volume deals with the Hebrew texts of all nine manuscripts discovered between 1896 and 1982 of the Book of Ben Sira that is reckoned among the deuterocanonical biblical wisdom literature and was written in Jerusalem about 180 BCE. In the first part of this volume the Hebrew manuscripts are offered in facsimile, i.e. presenting the real textual state of the recovered texts. The second part of this volume offers in a more convenient and functional way than in former text editions a synopsis of all Hebrew Ben Sira texts which are available in more than one manuscript.

New Inscriptions and Seals Relating to the Biblical World

New Inscriptions and Seals Relating to the Biblical World
Author: Meir Lubetski
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2012-09-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1589835573

This volume continues the tradition of New Seals and Inscriptions, Hebrew, Idumean and Cuneiform (Sheffield Phoenix, 2007) by featuring analyses by eminent scholars of some of the archaeological treasures from Dr. Shlomo Moussaieff’s outstanding collection. These contributions signal fresh approaches to the study of ancient artifacts and underscore the role of archaeological evidence in reconstructing the legacy of antiquity, especially that of the biblical period. The contributors are Kathleen Abraham, Chaim Cohen, Robert Deutsch, Claire Gottlieb, Martin Heide, Richard S. Hess, W. G. Lambert†, André Lemaire, Meir Lubetski, Matthew Morgenstern, Alan Millard, Lawrence J. Mykytiuk, and Peter van der Veen.

Congress Volume Leiden 2004

Congress Volume Leiden 2004
Author: André Lemaire
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2006-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047408772

This volume presents all the main lectures of the XVIIIth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) held in Leiden (August 2004). It is a very good sample of the main trends and progress of current biblical research on textual criticism (Qumran and Septuagint), biblical archaeology, literary criticism (especially Pentateuch, Joshua, Kings), biblical themes (especially in wisdom literature), as well as about the light thrown on biblical exegesis by current cognitive linguistics. An appendix deals with the connection between world Christianity and the study of the Old Testament. The twenty authors are among the main international figures of current biblical exegesis and their contributions are representative of the study of the Old Testament at the beginning of the third millenium.

Studies in the Book of Ben Sira

Studies in the Book of Ben Sira
Author: Géza Xeravits
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2008-06-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004169067

The volume publishes the papers read at an international conference on the Book of Ben Sira, held at the Shime'on Centre, Pápa, Hungary. Renowned specialists of the field treat among others various questions of early Jewish wisdom thought, the interpretation of history, and canon forming.

Between Wisdom and Torah

Between Wisdom and Torah
Author: Jiseong James Kwon
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2023-05-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3111069923

Previous scholars have largely approached Wisdom and Torah in the Second Temple Period through a type of reception history, whereby the two concepts have been understood as signifiers of independent, earlier “biblical” streams of tradition that later came together in the Hellenistic and Roman eras, largely under the process of a so-called “torahization” of wisdom. Recent studies critiquing the nature of wisdom and wisdom literature as operative categories for understanding scribal cultures in early Judaism, as well as newer approaches to conceptualizing Torah and authorizing-compositional practices related to the Pentateuchal texts, however, have challenged the foundations on which the previous models of Wisdom and Torah rested. This volume, therefore, brings together several essays that aim to reexamine and rethink the ways we can describe the developments of texts categorized as “Wisdom” that proliferated during the Second Temple Period and whose contents point to an engagement with a “Torah” discourse. By asking anew the question of whether “Wisdom” was transformed by/into “Torah” during this period, this volume offers reformulations on the discursive space between Wisdom and Torah through analyzing new identifications, confluences, and transformations.