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In Sirach and Its Contexts an international cohort of experts on the book of Sirach locate this second-century BCE Jewish wisdom text in its various contexts: literary, historical, philosophical, textual, cultural, and political. First compiled by a Jewish sage around 185 BCE, this instruction enjoyed a vibrant ongoing reception history through the middle ages up to the present, resulting in a multiform textual tradition as it has been written, rewritten, transmitted, and studied. Sirach was not composed as a book in the modern sense but rather as an ongoing stream of tradition. Heretofore studied largely in confessional settings as part of the Deuterocanonical literature, this volume brings together essays that take a broadly humanistic approach, in order to understand what an ancient wisdom text can teach us about the pursuit of wisdom and human flourishing.
In Sirach and Its Contexts an international cohort of experts on the book of Sirach locate this second-century BCE Jewish wisdom text in its various contexts: literary, historical, philosophical, textual, cultural, and political. First compiled by a Jewish sage around 185 BCE, this instruction en...
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Samuel L. Adams, Ph.D. (2006), Yale University, is the McNair Chair in Biblical Studies at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. He has published monographs on ancient Near Eastern wisdom literature and economics in the biblical world. He is currently writing a commentary on Ben Sira for the Anchor Yale Bible series. He edits the journal Interpretation.
Greg Schmidt Goering, Th.D. (2006), Harvard Divinity School, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He researches ancient Jewish wisdom literature and is the author of Wisdoms Root Revealed: Ben Sira and the Election of Israel (Brill, 2009).
Matthew Goff, Ph.D. (2003), University of Chicago, is a Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism at Florida State University. His most recent publication is a volume co-edited with Samuel Adams, the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature (2020).
Greg Schmidt Goering, Th.D. (2006), Harvard Divinity School, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He researches ancient Jewish wisdom literature and is the author of Wisdoms Root Revealed: Ben Sira and the Election of Israel (Brill, 2009).
Matthew Goff, Ph.D. (2003), University of Chicago, is a Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism at Florida State University. His most recent publication is a volume co-edited with Samuel Adams, the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature (2020).
Samuel L. Adams, Ph.D. (2006), Yale University, is the McNair Chair in Biblical Studies at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. He has published monographs on ancient Near Eastern wisdom literature and economics in the biblical world. He is currently writing a commentary on Ben Sira...
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