Ben Sira’s Praise of the Ancestors of Old (Sir 44–49): The History of Israel as Parenetic Apologetics

Articles in the same Issue

2. Preface
4. The Notion of History in the Hebrew Bible
6. From Exodus to David – History and Historiography in Psalm 78
8. Theological Hermeneutics and Historical Motifs in Pss 105-106
10. Israel’s Earlier History as Presented in the Book of Chronicles
12. The Gracious God, Sinners and Foreigners: How Nehemiah 9 Interprets the History of Israel
14. Reinterpreting the Past: Judith 5
16. The Testament of Mattathias to His Sons in 1 Macc 2:49-70
18. Ben Sira’s Praise of the Ancestors of Old (Sir 44–49): The History of Israel as Parenetic Apologetics
20. The Origins According to the Wisdom of Solomon
22. Baruch: Causes, Effects and Remedies for a Disaster
24. The Review of History in Eleazar’s Prayer in 3 Macc 6:1-15
26. Historiography in the Damascus Document
28. “Our Forefathers Never Triumphed by Arms…”
30. The Historical Part of the Pentateuch According to Philo of Alexandria: Biography, Genealogy, and the Philosophical Meaning of the Patriarchal Lives
32. Artapanus: “Judaica”
34. The Function of History in Early Rabbinic Liturgy
36. Stephen’s Speech Before the Sanhedrin Against the Background of the Summaries of the History of Israel (Acts 7)
38. Abraham and His Offspring in the Pauline Writings
40. Index
42. On the Authors