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
- Yigael Yadin, The Ben Sira Scroll from Masada (Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society, 1965)
- Gian Luigi Prato, Il problema della teodicea in Ben Sira: Composizione dei contrari e richiamo alle origini (Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1975)
- 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)
- Warren C. Trenchard, Ben Sira's View of Women: A Literary Analysis (Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982)
- Jack T Sanders, Ben Sira and Demotic Wisdom (Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1983)
- Burton L. Mack, Wisdom and the Hebrew Epic: Ben Sira's Hymn in praise of the Fathers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985)
- Patrick W. Skehan and Alexander A. Di Lella, The Wisdom of Ben Sira: A New Translation with Notes (New York: Doubleday, 1987)
- Milward Douglas Nelson, The Syriac version of the wisdom of Ben Sira compared to the Greek and Hebrew materials (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1988)
- Núria Calduch-Benages and Friedrich Vinzenz Reiterer, Bibliographie zu Ben Sira (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1998)
- 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)
- Eric D Reymond, Innovations in Hebrew Poetry: Parallelism and the Poems of Sirach (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literaure, 2004)
Edited volumes
- Friedrich Vinzenz Reiterer (ed.), Freundschaft bei Ben Sira (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)
- Pancratius C. Beentjes (ed.), The Book of Ben Sira in Modern Research (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1997)
- T. Muraoka, and John F. Elwolde (eds.), Sirach, Scrolls, and Sages (Leiden: Brill, 1999)
- Renate Egger-Wenzel (ed.), Ben Sira's God (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2002)