Book of Sirach
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The Book of Sirach is a document included in collections of Old Testament Apocrypha, Septuagint, and Wisdom literature.
Bibliography (chronological order)
Books
- 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)
- 1970s
- Johannes Marböck, Weisheit im Wandel. Untersuchungen zur Weisheitstheologie bei Ben Sira (Bonn: Hanstein, 1971; repr. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1999)
- Otto Rickenbacher, Weisheitsperikopen bei Ben Sira (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)
- Gian Luigi Prato, Il problema della teodicea in Ben Sira: Composizione dei contrari e richiamo alle origini (Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1975)
- Michael M. Winter, A Concordance to the Peshitta Version of Ben Sira (Leiden: Brill, 1976)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Thomas R. Lee, Studies in the form of Sirach 44-50 (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1986).
- 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)
- Benjamin G Wright, No Small Difference: Sirach's relationship to its Hebrew parent text (Atlanta, GA: Scholars, 1989)
- 1990s
- 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)
- 2000s
- Ursel Wicke-Reuter, Göttliche Providenz und menschliche Verantwortung bei Ben Sira und in der frühen Stoa (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2000)
- 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)
- Daniel J. Harrington, Jesus ben Sira of Jerusalem: A Biblical Guide to Living Wisely (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2005)
Edited volumes
- 1990s
- Friedrich V. 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)
- 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)
- T. Muraoka, and John F. Elwolde (eds.), Sirach, Scrolls, and Sages (Leiden: Brill, 1999)
- 2000s
- Renate Egger-Wenzel (ed.), Ben Sira's God (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2002)
- 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)