Ben Sira's teaching on friendship
"The purpose of this study is to elucidate Ben Sira's teaching on friendship within the religious and cultural context of his time, in view of the Hellenistic emphasis on philia ("friendship"). While friendship is of contemporary interest, until recently there has been little res...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Brown Judaic Studies,
2020.
Providence, Rhode Island : [2020] |
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| Summary: | "The purpose of this study is to elucidate Ben Sira's teaching on friendship within the religious and cultural context of his time, in view of the Hellenistic emphasis on philia ("friendship"). While friendship is of contemporary interest, until recently there has been little research into the understanding of friendship in Second Temple Judaism. This study aims to fill the lacuna by focusing on the apocryphal/deuterocanonical Wisdom of Ben Sira (Sirach). In fact, no book of the Hebrew Bible says as much about friendship as does the Wisdom of Ben Sira."--Provided by publisher |
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| Item Description: | "This edition incorporates a new extensive preface that puts this study into conversation with recent scholarship. The original text is unchanged."--Publishers' preface "Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program."--T.p. verso "Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License."--T.p. verso |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781951498139 1951498135 9781951498146 1951498143 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 11, 2020). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brown Judaic studies ;
no. 316. |
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