Book of Sirach

The Book of Sirach is a document included in collections of Old Testament Apocrypha, Septuagint, and Wisdom literature.

Bibliography (chronological order)

Books

• • Greg Schmidt Goering, Wisdom’s Root Revealed: Ben Sira and the Election of Israel (Leiden: Brill, 2009)
  • Giuseppe Veltri, Libraries, Translations, and 'canonic' texts: The Septuagint, Aquila, and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian traditions (Leiden: Brill, 2006)
  • Daniel J. Harrington, Jesus ben Sira of Jerusalem: A Biblical Guide to Living Wisely (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2005)
  • Eric D. Reymond, Innovations in Hebrew Poetry: Parallelism and the Poems of Sirach (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literaure, 2004)
  • Otto Mulder, Simon the High Priest in Sirach 50: An exegetical study of the significance of Simon the High Priest as climax to the Praise of the fathers in Ben Sira's concept of the history of Israel (Leiden: Brill, 2003)
  • Jeremy Corley, Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship (Providence, RI: Brown Judaic Studies, 2002)
  • Ursel Wicke-Reuter, Göttliche Providenz und menschliche Verantwortung bei Ben Sira und in der frühen Stoa <German> (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2000)

• 2000
  • Lan Liesen, Full of praise: An Exegetical Study of Sir 39, 12-35 (Leiden: Boston, 1999)
  • Núria Calduch-Benages and Friedrich V. Reiterer, Bibliographie zu Ben Sira <German> (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1998)
  • Pancratius C. Beentjes, The Book of Ben Sira in Hebrew: A text edition of all extant Hebrew manuscripts and a synopsis of all parallel Hebrew Ben Sira texts (Leiden: Brill, 1997)
  • 1 Enoch and Sirach (1995 Argall) book

• 1990
  • Benjamin G Wright, No Small Difference: Sirach's relationship to its Hebrew parent text (Atlanta, GA: Scholars, 1989)
  • Milward Douglas Nelson, The Syriac version of the wisdom of Ben Sira compared to the Greek and Hebrew materials (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1988)
  • Patrick W. Skehan and Alexander A. Di Lella, The Wisdom of Ben Sira: A New Translation with Notes (New York: Doubleday, 1987)**Thomas R. Lee, Studies in the form of Sirach 44-50 (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1986). **Burton L. Mack, Wisdom and the Hebrew Epic: Ben Sira's Hymn in praise of the Fathers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985)
  • R.A.F. MacKenzie, Sirach (Wilmington, DE: Glazier, 1983)
  • Jack T. Sanders, Ben Sira and Demotic Wisdom (Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1983)
  • Warren C. Trenchard, Ben Sira's View of Women: A Literary Analysis (Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982)
  • Helge Stadelmann, Ben Sira als Schriftgelehrter: eine Untersuchung zum Berufsbild des vor-makkabäischen Sofer unter Berücksichtigung seines Verhältnisses zu Priester-, Propheten- und Weisheitslehrertum <German> (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1980)

• 1980
  • Michael M. Winter, A Concordance to the Peshitta Version of Ben Sira (Leiden: Brill, 1976)
  • Tadeusz Penar, Northwest Semitic philology and the Hebrew fragments of Ben Sira (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1975)
  • Gian Luigi Prato, Il problema della teodicea in Ben Sira: Composizione dei contrari e richiamo alle origini <Italian> (Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1975)
  • John G Snaith, Ecclesiasticus; or, The Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach (London: Cambridge University Press, 1974)
  • Otto Rickenbacher, Weisheitsperikopen bei Ben Sira <German> (Freiburg: Schweiz Universitätsverlag; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1973)
  • Theophil Middendorp, Die Stellung Jesu Ben Siras zwischen Judentum und Hellenismus <German> (Leiden: Brill, 1973)
  • Dominique Barthélemy and Otto Rickenbacher, Konkordanz zum hebräischen Sirach: mit syr.-hebrä. Index (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1973)
  • Johannes Marböck, Weisheit im Wandel. Untersuchungen zur Weisheitstheologie bei Ben Sira <German> (Bonn: Hanstein, 1971; repr. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1999)
  • Hans Peter Rüger, Text und Textform im hebräischen Sirach. Untersuchungen zur Textgeschichte und Textkritik der hebräischen Sirachfragmente aus der Kairoer Geniza <German> (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1970)

• 1970
  • Josef Haspecker, Gottesfurcht bei Jesus Sirach: ihre religiöse struktur und ihre literarishe und doktrinäre bedeutung (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1967)
  • Alexander A Di Lella, The Hebrew text of Sirach: A Text-Critical and Historical Study (The Hague: Mouton, 1966)
  • Yigael Yadin, The Ben Sira Scroll from Masada (Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society, 1965)

• 1960
  • William O.E. Oesterley, The Wisdom of Ben-Sira (Ecclesiasticus) (London: SPCK, 1916)
  • William O.E. Oesterley, The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach; or, Ecclesiasticus, in the Revised version (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912)
• 1900

Edited volumes

• • Géza G. Xeravits, and József Zsengellér (eds.), Studies in the Book of Ben Sira (Leiden: Brill, 2008)
  • Pancratius C. Beentjes (ed.), Happy the one who meditates on wisdom (Sir. 14,20): Collected Essays on the Book of Ben Sira (Leuven: Peeters, 2006)
  • Jeremy Corley, and Vincent T.M. Skemp (eds.), Intertextual studies in Ben Sira and Tobit: Eessays in honor of Alexander A. Di Lella, O.F.M. (Washington, DC: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2005)
  • Renate Egger-Wenzel (ed.), Ben Sira's God (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2002)
  • T. Muraoka, and John F. Elwolde (eds.), Diggers at the Well (Leiden: Brill, 2000)
• 2000
  • T. Muraoka, and John F. Elwolde (eds.), Sirach, Scrolls, and Sages (Leiden: Brill, 1999)
  • Richard J. Coggins, Sirach (Sheffield: Academic, 1998)
  • Ingrid Krammer, and Renate Egger-Wenzel (eds.), Der Einzelne und seine Gemeinschaft bei Ben Sira (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1998)
  • Pancratius C. Beentjes (ed.), The Book of Ben Sira in Modern Research (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1997)
  • T. Muraoka, and John F. Elwolde (eds.), The Hebrew of the Dead Sea scrolls and Ben Sira (Leiden: Brill, 1997)
  • Friedrich V. Reiterer (ed.), Freundschaft bei Ben Sira <German> (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1996)
• 1990

External links

• Bibliographie zu Jesus Sirach by Franz Böhmisch