Gebundenes Buch

Sirach and Its Contexts

The Pursuit of Wisdom and Human Flourishing

Beschreibung

In Sirach and Its Contexts an international cohort of experts analyze this second-century BCE Jewish text in its various literary, historical, philosophical, textual, and political contexts. Humanistic in approach, these essays elicit an ancient tradition's teachings about human wisdom and flourishing.

Autor

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 Wisdom's 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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2021
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 641g
• ISBN-13: 9789004447325
• ISBN-10: 9004447326
• Artikelnr.: 60413137