Wisdom's Root Revealed
Wisdom's Root Revealed

Author: Greg Schmidt Goering

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 9004165797

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This monograph interprets the theme of election in the book of Sirach. Previous scholarship has often understood Ben Sira s worldview to be dualistic, and has approached the sage's correlation of Wisdom and Torah as either a nationalization of Wisdom or a universalization of Torah. By probing Ben Sira s ideas about election, this book suggests that Ben Sira does not collapse the traditional sapiential dichotomy wisdom/folly into a dualistic worldview, and that his understanding of the relation between Wisdom and Torah proves to be far more subtle than previous interpretations have allowed. The study demonstrates that the concept of election enables a profitable discussion of the relation of Wisdom and Torah in the thought of this pivotal Second Temple sage.

The Chosen People
The Chosen People

Author: A. Chadwick Thornhill

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2015-10-29

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0830899154

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In this careful and provocative study, Chad Thornhill considers how Second Temple understandings of election influenced key Pauline texts with sensitivity to social, historical and literary factors. While Paul is able to move beyond ancient categories of a collective view of election, Thornhill shows how he also follows these patterns.

Deuterocanonical Additions of the Old Testament Books
Deuterocanonical Additions of the Old Testament Books

Author: Géza G. Xeravits

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2010-07-30

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 311024053X

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The volume publishes papers presented at the International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books (Pápa, Hungary). This conference dealt with the deuterocanonical additions of the Old Testament books. As such, this was one of the most extended discussions of these writings that has ever taken place at a scholarly meeting. The volume contains articles on the traditions and theology of the additions, and demonstrates their relationship with the contemporary literature of early Judaism. Several writings of the Hebrew Bible – such as Esther, Daniel and Jeremiah – have different textual forms in the Greek Bible, and these forms display amplified material compared to the Hebrew versions. These additions testify to the creative reflection of early Jewish circles on the basic traditions of these Books and the textual fluidity of the writings in question. The essays of this volume explore these additions, their relationship to the Hebrew parent texts, and their impact on the effective history of the interpretation of later centuries.

Torah
Torah

Author: William M. Schniedewind

Publisher: SBL Press

Published: 2022-03-11

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 1628375043

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The present volume explores the ever-evolving understandings and diverse manifestations of the Hebrew notion of torah in early Jewish and Christian literature and the different roles torah played within those communities, whether in Judea or in the Hellenistic and early Roman diaspora. This collection of essays is purposefully wide-ranging, with contributors exploring and rethinking some of the most basic scholarly assumptions and preconceptions about the nature of torah in light of new critical approaches and methodologies with the goal of seeing how different vantage points and different conclusions can better address the complexity of the topic and better reflect the ambiguity and fluidity inherent in the concept of torah itself. Contributors include Gabriele Boccaccini, Francis Borchardt, Calum Carmichael, Federico Dal Bo, Lutz Doering, Oliver Dyma, Paula Fredriksen, Robert G. Hall, Magnar Kartveit, Anne Kreps, David Lambert, Michael Legaspi, Jason A. Myers, Juan Carlos Ossandón Widow, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Patrick Pouchelle, Jeremy Punt, Michael L. Satlow, Joachim Schaper, William Schniedewind, Elisa Uusimäki, Jacqueline Vayntrub, Jonathan Vroom, James W. Watts, Benjamin G. Wright III, and Jason M. Zurawski.

Sirach and Its Contexts
Sirach and Its Contexts

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-01-25

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 9004447334

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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.

Cognitive Linguistic Explorations in Biblical Studies
Cognitive Linguistic Explorations in Biblical Studies

Author: Bonnie Howe

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-10-24

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 3110350130

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Writing, reading, and interpretation are acts of human minds, requiring complex cognition at every point. A relatively new field of studies, cognitive linguistics, focuses on how language and cognition are interconnected: Linguistic structures both shape cognitive patterns and are shaped by them. The Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Interpretation section of the Society of Biblical Literature gathers scholars interested in applying cognitive linguistics to biblical studies, focusing on how language makes meaning, how texts evoke authority, and how contemporary readers interact with ancient texts. This collection of essays represents first fruits from the first six years (2006–2012) of that effort, drawing on cognitive metaphor study, mental spaces and conceptual blending, narrative theory, and cognitive grammar. Contributors include Eve Sweetser, Ellen van Wolde, Hugo Lundhaug and Jesper T. Nielsen.

Daily Prayer 2023
Daily Prayer 2023

Author: Michael J.K. Fuller

Publisher: Liturgy Training Publications

Published: 2022-06-22

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 161671655X

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Daily Prayer is the perfect companion for your spiritual journey. Versatile and easy-to-use, this trusted resource has assisted Catholics in deepening their faith and prayer life for over a decade. Equally useful for group or individual prayer, each day’s prayer centers on a Scripture reading, along with a reflection, a psalm, intercessions, and closing prayer. Daily Prayer 2023 provides an introduction to Catholic prayer for those involved in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults and an easy-to-use format for Catholics of all ages. It provides a simple order of prayer for each day of the liturgical year from the First Sunday of Advent, November 27, 2022, through Saturday, December 2, 2023. As the perfect gift for parish volunteers, teachers, and catechists, it will help each person in the parish foster a practice of prayer and can be used to begin or end parish meetings.

Intertextual Explorations in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature
Intertextual Explorations in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature

Author: Jeremy Corley

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-05-06

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 311041693X

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This volume explores the fundamentals of intertextual methodology and summarizes recent scholarship on studies of intertextuality in the deuterocanonical books. The essays engage in comparison and analysis of text groups and motifs between canonical, deuterocanonical and non-biblical texts. Moreover, the book pays close attention to non-literary relationships between different traditions, a new feature of research in intertextuality.

Figures who Shape Scriptures, Scriptures that Shape Figures
Figures who Shape Scriptures, Scriptures that Shape Figures

Author: Géza G. Xeravits

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 3110593092

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The papers of the volume investigate how authoritative figures in the Second Temple Period and beyond contributed to forming the Scriptures of Judaism, as well as how these Scriptures shaped ideal figures as authoritative in Early Judaism. The topic of the volume thus reflects Ben Wright’s research, who—especially with his work on Ben Sira, on the Letter of Aristeas, and on various problems of authority in Early Jewish texts—creatively contributed to the study of the formation of Scriptures, and to the understanding of the figures behind these texts.