About this ebook
The volume focuses on eight literary units for which no continuous Hebrew text has been preserved. Each unit was initially studied and published in Italian by one of the authors in the Rivista Biblica , but all sections were subsequently revised through close collaboration among the four scholars. For the present English edition, a general introduction and conclusion have also been added.
Throughout the volume, the authors engage critically with previous scholarship on these passages of Sirach. Combining classical textual criticism with detailed literary analysis, they examine the structure of each text, propose and explain its strophic organization, and explore its theological significance both within the individual unit and within the book as a whole.
The resulting commentary offers fresh insight into the literary techniques, interpretative choices, and theological profile of the Greek translator of Ben Sira.
