Ben Sira’s Teaching on Friendship / Jeremy Corley.

• Author: Brown University.
• VerfasserIn: Corley, Jeremy,
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown University.
• Place / Publishing House: Providence : : Brown Judaic Studies,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English; Hebrew
• Series: Brown Judaic studies; 316
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 297 p. ); Tables
• Notes: The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. To use this book, or parts of this book, in any way not covered by the license, please contact Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University, Box 1826, Providence, RI 02912.

The purpose of this study is to elucidate Ben Sira’s teaching on friendship within the religious and cultural context of his time, in view of the Hellenistic emphasis on philia (“friendship”). While friendship is of contemporary interest, until recently there has been little research into the understanding of friendship in Second Temple Judaism. This study aims to fill the lacuna by focusing on the apocryphal/deuterocanonical Wisdom of Ben Sira (Sirach). In fact, no book of the Hebrew Bible says as much about friendship as does the Wisdom of Ben Sira. The book contains a new preface by the author.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Sirach 6:5–17 and 37:1–6 -- Sirach 9:10–16 -- Sirach 13:15–23 -- Sirach 19:13–17 and 27:16–21 -- Sirach 22:19–26 -- Conclusion.