Discovering, Deciphering and Dissenting : : Ben Sira Manuscripts after 120 years /

Discovering, Deciphering and Dissenting : : Ben Sira Manuscripts after 120 years / / ed. by James K. Aitken, Renate Egger-Wenzel, Stefan C. Reif.

The discovery of Hebrew manuscripts of Ben Sira in the Cairo Genizah has shaped and transformed the interpretation of the book. It is argued here that a proper appreciation of the manuscripts themselves is also essential for understanding this ancient work.Since their discovery 120 years ago and sub...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Aitken, James K.,
Beentjes, Pancratius C.,
Calduch-Benages, Núria,
Corley, Jeremy,
Dhont, Marieke,
Dihi, Haim,
Egger-Wenzel, Renate,
Goff, Matthew,
Joosten, Jan,
Macintosh, Andrew A.,
Mizrahi, Noam,
Nicholls, Mark,
Noam, Vered,
Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith,
Reif, Stefan C.,
Reiterer, Friedrich Vinzenz,
Rey, Jean-Sébastien,
Reymond, Eric D.,
Wright, Benjamin G.,
HerausgeberIn:
Aitken, James K.,
Egger-Wenzel, Renate,
Reif, Stefan C.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook , 2018
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 401 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • I. Discovery and Disputes
  • Notes on Jumbo’s Desk
  • Charles Taylor as a Man of St John’s
  • How Ben Sira Crossed my Path
  • II. The Hebrew Manuscripts and Rabbinic Circles
  • Some First Editions of Genizah Manuscripts of Ben Sira
  • The “Booklet” of Ben Sira
  • Scribal Practices in Ben Sira Manuscript B
  • The Persian Glosses and the Text of Manuscript B Revisited
  • The Synoptic Problem and the Reception of the Ben Sira Manuscripts
  • Various Attempts at Producing a Ben Sira Polyglo
  • Ben Sira—Biblical Sage, Rabbi, and Payyeṭan
  • Ben Sira: A Rabbinic Perspective
  • III. The Poetry of the Book
  • The Poetry of Ben Sira Manuscript C
  • Ben Sira’s Hebrew Poetry in Comparison with the Psalter
  • Poetic Imagery in the Book of Ben Sira
  • The Theological and Philosophical Concepts of Ben Sira
  • IV. The Language of the Book
  • The Hebrew of the Ben Sira Manuscripts from the Genizah
  • Transmission and Transformation of Ben Sira’s Poetic Language
  • The Contribution of the Language of The Book of Ben Sira to Biblical Hebrew Philology
  • Biographies of Authors
  • Index of References
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Subjects

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