The Formation of the Scribal Self in Ben Sira

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Introduction XI
4. Abbreviations XIII
5. An Intellectual Biography and the Curriculum Vitae of Choon Leong Seow 1
6. Choon Leong Seow: An Appreciation 17
7. I: Job
8. The Speaker in Job 28 21
9. Metaphors of Illness and Wellness in Job 39
10. Blessing and Justice in Job: In/commensurable? 51
11. Job Spoke the Truth about God (Job 42:7–8) 71
12. The Kerygma of the Book of Job 81
13. The Reception of Job in the Dead Sea Scrolls 99
14. The Book of Job and Two Twentieth-Century British Oratorios 115
15. II: Proverbs and Ecclesiastes
16. Proverbs 1–9 as Instruction for a Young Man and for “Everyman” 129
17. From Epistemology to Wisdom Theology: The Composition of Proverbs 10 143
18. On יֵשׁ of Reflection in the Book of Proverbs 157
19. Why is it So Difficult to Read Ecclesiastes? 163
20. A Rhetoric of Indecision: Reflections on God as Judge in Qoheleth 177
21. Solomon’s Wise Words in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature 189
22. When Wisdom Fails 209
23. III: Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon
24. The Formation of the Scribal Self in Ben Sira 227
25. Translation, Reception, and the Historiography of Early Judaism: The Wisdom of Ben Sira and Old Greek Job as Case Studies 239
26. God and Evil in the Wisdom of Solomon 255
27. IV: Wisdom’s Echoes in the Hebrew Bible and Semitic Inscriptions
28. The Ambivalence of Human Wisdom: Genesis 2–3 as a Sapiential Text 275
29. What is the Place of Wisdom and Torah in the Psalter? 287
30. Traces of an Original Allegorical Meaning of the Song of Songs 317
31. Royal Inscriptions in the Hebrew Bible and Mesopotamia: Reflections on Presence, Function, and Self-Critique 331
32. Agriculture and Wisdom: The Case of the “Gezer Calendar” 365
33. List of Contributors 381
34. Index of Ancient Sources 383
35. Index of Subjects 387