Scribal culture in Ben Sira / / by Lindsey A. Askin.
In Scribal Culture in Ben Sira Lindsey A. Askin examines scribal culture as a framework for analysing features of textual referencing throughout the Book of Ben Sira (c.198-175 BCE), revealing new insights into how Ben Sira wrote his book of wisdom. Although the title of “scribe” is regularly applie...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill. c2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Tools and Techniques of Scribal Culture: Materiality and Physicality of Reading and Writing
- Noah and Phinehas: Originality and Textual Reuse
- Hezekiah-Isaiah and Josiah: Multiple Source Handling and Harmonization
- On Weather: Nature-Lists and Ben Sira’s Use of Psalms and Job
- Death and the Body: Echoes of Job, Qohelet, and Ancient Perspectives
- The Physician and Piety: Textual Reuse and Perspectives on Medicine
- Conclusions
- Back Matter
- Editions and Translations Used
- Bibliography.