Difference between revisions of "Book of Sirach"

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====Books====
====Books====
*'''1900-1949'''
**[[William O.E. Oesterley]], The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach; or, Ecclesiasticus, in the Revised version (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912)
**[[William O.E. Oesterley]], The Wisdom of Ben-Sira (Ecclesiasticus) (London: SPCK, 1916)


*'''1960s'''
*'''1960s'''
**[[Yigael Yadin]], The Ben Sira Scroll from Masada (Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society, 1965)
**[[Yigael Yadin]], The Ben Sira Scroll from Masada (Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society, 1965)
**[[Alexander A Di Lella]], The Hebrew text of Sirach: A Text-Critical and Historical Study (The Hague: Mouton, 1966)
**[[Alexander A Di Lella]], The Hebrew text of Sirach: A Text-Critical and Historical Study (The Hague: Mouton, 1966)
**[[Josef Haspecker]], Gottesfurcht bei Jesus Sirach: ihre religiöse struktur und ihre literarishe und doktrinäre bedeutung (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1967)


*'''1970s'''
*'''1970s'''
**[[Johannes Marböck]], Weisheit im Wandel. Untersuchungen zur Weisheitstheologie bei Ben Sira (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)
**[[Otto Rickenbacher]], Weisheitsperikopen bei Ben Sira (Freiburg: Schweiz Universitätsverlag; 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)
**[[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)
**[[Otto Rickenbacher]], Weisheitsperikopen bei Ben Sira <German>  (Freiburg: Schweiz Universitätsverlag; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1973)
**[[John G Snaith]], Ecclesiasticus; or, The Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach (London: Cambridge University Press, 1974)  
**[[John G Snaith]], Ecclesiasticus; or, The Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach (London: Cambridge University Press, 1974)  
**[[Gian Luigi Prato]], [[Il problema della teodicea in Ben Sira]]: Composizione dei contrari e richiamo alle origini (Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1975)
**[[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)
**[[Michael M. Winter]], A Concordance to the Peshitta Version of Ben Sira (Leiden: Brill, 1976)
**[[Michael M. Winter]], A Concordance to the Peshitta Version of Ben Sira (Leiden: Brill, 1976)


*'''1980s'''
*'''1980s'''
**[[Helge Stadelmann]], [[Ben Sira als Schriftgelehrter]]: eine Untersuchung zum Berufsbild des vor-makkabäischen Sofer unter Berücksichtigung seines Verhältnisses zu Priester-, Propheten- und Weisheitslehrertum (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1980)
**[[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)
**[[Warren C. Trenchard]], [[Ben Sira's View of Women]]: A Literary Analysis (Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982)
**[[Warren C. Trenchard]], [[Ben Sira's View of Women]]: A Literary Analysis (Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982)
**[[R.A.F. MacKenzie]], Sirach (Wilmington, DE: Glazier, 1983)
**[[R.A.F. MacKenzie]], Sirach (Wilmington, DE: Glazier, 1983)
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*'''1990s'''
*'''1990s'''
**[[Randal A. Argall]], [[1 Enoch and Sirach]]: A Comparative Literary and Conceptual Analysis of the Themes of Revelation, Creation, and Judgment (Atlanta, GA: Scholars, 1995)
**[[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)
**[[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)
**[[Núria Calduch-Benages]] and [[Friedrich V. Reiterer]], [[Bibliographie zu Ben Sira]] (Berlin: [[Walter de Gruyter]], 1998)
**[[Núria Calduch-Benages]] and [[Friedrich V. Reiterer]], [[Bibliographie zu Ben Sira]] <German> (Berlin: [[Walter de Gruyter]], 1998)
**[[Lan Liesen]], Full of praise:
An Exegetical Study of Sir 39, 12-35 (Leiden: Boston, 1999)


*'''2000s'''
*'''2000s'''
**[[Ursel Wicke-Reuter]], Göttliche Providenz und menschliche Verantwortung bei Ben Sira und in der frühen Stoa (Berlin: [[Walter de Gruyter]], 2000)
**[[Ursel Wicke-Reuter]], Göttliche Providenz und menschliche Verantwortung bei Ben Sira und in der frühen Stoa <German> (Berlin: [[Walter de Gruyter]], 2000)
**[[Jeremy Corley]], [[Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship]] (Providence, RI: Brown Judaic Studies, 2002)
**[[Jeremy Corley]], [[Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship]] (Providence, RI: Brown Judaic Studies, 2002)
**[[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)
**[[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)
**[[Eric D. Reymond]], [[Innovations in Hebrew Poetry]]: Parallelism and the Poems of Sirach (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literaure, 2004)
**[[Eric D. Reymond]], [[Innovations in Hebrew Poetry]]: Parallelism and the Poems of Sirach (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literaure, 2004)
**[[Daniel J. Harrington]], Jesus ben Sira of Jerusalem: A Biblical Guide to Living Wisely (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2005)
**[[Daniel J. Harrington]], Jesus ben Sira of Jerusalem: A Biblical Guide to Living Wisely (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2005)
**[[Giuseppe Veltri]], Libraries, Translations, and 'canonic' texts:
The Septuagint, Aquila, and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian traditions (Leiden: Brill, 2006)


====Edited volumes====
====Edited volumes====
*'''1990s'''
*'''1990s'''
**[[Friedrich V. Reiterer]] (ed.), [[Freundschaft bei Ben Sira]] (Berlin: [[Walter de Gruyter]], 1996)
**[[Friedrich V. Reiterer]] (ed.), [[Freundschaft bei Ben Sira]] <German>  (Berlin: [[Walter de Gruyter]], 1996)
**[[T. Muraoka]], and [[John F. Elwolde]] (eds.), The Hebrew of the Dead Sea scrolls and Ben Sira (Leiden: Brill, 1997)  
**[[T. Muraoka]], and [[John F. Elwolde]] (eds.), The Hebrew of the Dead Sea scrolls and Ben Sira (Leiden: Brill, 1997)  
**[[Pancratius C. Beentjes]] (ed.), The Book of Ben Sira in Modern Research (Berlin: [[Walter de Gruyter]], 1997)
**[[Pancratius C. Beentjes]] (ed.), The Book of Ben Sira in Modern Research (Berlin: [[Walter de Gruyter]], 1997)
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*'''2000s'''
*'''2000s'''
**[[T. Muraoka]], and [[John F. Elwolde]] (eds.), Diggers at the Well (Leiden: Brill, 2000)
**[[Renate Egger-Wenzel]] (ed.), Ben Sira's God (Berlin: [[Walter de Gruyter]], 2002)
**[[Renate Egger-Wenzel]] (ed.), Ben Sira's God (Berlin: [[Walter de Gruyter]], 2002)
**[[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)
**[[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)
**[[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)
**[[Géza G. Xeravits]], and [[József Zsengellér]] (eds.), [[Studies in the Book of Ben Sira]] (Leiden: [[Brill]], 2008)
**[[Géza G. Xeravits]], and [[József Zsengellér]] (eds.), [[Studies in the Book of Ben Sira]] (Leiden: [[Brill]], 2008)

Revision as of 11:11, 28 August 2009

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

Bibliography (chronological order)

Books

  • 1900-1949
    • William O.E. Oesterley, The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach; or, Ecclesiasticus, in the Revised version (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912)
    • William O.E. Oesterley, The Wisdom of Ben-Sira (Ecclesiasticus) (London: SPCK, 1916)
  • 1960s
    • Yigael Yadin, The Ben Sira Scroll from Masada (Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society, 1965)
    • Alexander A Di Lella, The Hebrew text of Sirach: A Text-Critical and Historical Study (The Hague: Mouton, 1966)
    • Josef Haspecker, Gottesfurcht bei Jesus Sirach: ihre religiöse struktur und ihre literarishe und doktrinäre bedeutung (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1967)

An Exegetical Study of Sir 39, 12-35 (Leiden: Boston, 1999)

The Septuagint, Aquila, and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian traditions (Leiden: Brill, 2006)


Edited volumes

External links