Category:Book of Sirach (text)

The Book of Sirach is a document included in the Septuagint, the Vulgate as well as in the canons of Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Christian Bible, or among the Protestant OT Apocrypha.

Select Bibliography (general introductions)

• / [[]] / In: The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992 Freedman), dictionary,

• Ben Sira, Book of / Benjamin G. Wright / In: The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), dictionary, 436-438

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)
  • Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship (2002 Corley), book
  • 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)
  • Sirach (1983 MacKenzie), book
  • 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