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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Select Bibliography 7
6. Contributors 13
7. Part I: Ben Sira in Conversation with the Torah
8. The Creation of Humanity in HebrewWisdom Literature of the Second Century BCE 17
9. Torah, Paideia, and Sophia in Ben Sira 35
10. Ben Sira’s Portrayal of Aaron and Phinehas (Sir 45:6–25): An Interaction between Tradition and Innovation 51
11. “Do Not Defraud the Life of the Poor”: Notes on the Greek of Sir 4:1–10 65
12. Part II: Ben Sira in Conversation with the Prophets
13. Ben Sira and Ezekiel 79
14. “Bread to the Hungry and Clothes to the Naked”: A History of a Prophetic- Sapiential Motif from Tobit to the Syriac of Ben Sira 95
15. The Metaphor of a Woman Giving Birth: The Book of Ben Sira in the Light of Prophetic Literature 109
16. Banquet of Life in Ben Sira and Hosea: Intertextual Links between Sir 24:12–23 and Hos 14:5–10 123
17. Part III: Ben Sira in Conversation with Wisdom Traditions
18. “Yet, No One Remembered that Poor Man”: Qoheleth and Ben Sira on the Wisdom of the Poor 147
19. Living with Wild Animals: A Study of the Imagery in Sir 25:15–16 165
20. Keywords: women/wives, animal imagery, metaphors, Ben Sira, anger 177
21. Family Ethos and Wise Behavior in Proverbs, Sirach, and Vietnamese Folk Sayings 191
22. Part IV: Ben Sira in Coversation with Some of the Literature of the Second Temple
23. Jerusalem in the Books of Tobit and Ben Sira 215
24. Wisdom in Disguise and the Heroism of Widows: Ben Sira and Judean Traditions (Sir 4:1–19) 235
25. Path Dependence and Institutional Change: The Portrayal of Alcimus and Jonathan as High Priests in 1 Maccabees 249
26. A Devilish Parallel: Sir 15:14 in its Hebrew Reception 267
27. Part V: Later Authors in Conversation with the Book of Ben Sira
28. The Book of Ben Sira From a Reception- Historical Perspective: Hubert Frankemölle’s Commentary on the Letter of James 283
29. Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak, and Slow to Anger (Jas 1:19 and Sir 5:11) 301
30. Reliability and Gentleness: Moses, Jesus, and the Disciple 321
31. “Useful for Instruction”: The Popularity of Sirach in Christian Egypt 337
32. M. H. Segal (1875–1968) and his Abiding Interest in Ben Sira 351
33. Index of References 371
34. Index of Authors 381