ISBN:
9789004372863
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 311 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2018
Series Statement:
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism Volume 184
Series Statement:
Journal for the study of Judaism Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Askin, Lindsey A. Scribal culture in Ben Sira
Dissertation note:
Dissertation University of Cambridge 2016
Keywords:
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Bible Comparative studies
;
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Bible Comparative studies
;
Bible
;
Comparative studies
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Bibel Jesus Sirach
;
Schreiber
;
Frühjudentum
Abstract:
"In Scribal Culture in Ben Sira, Lindsey A. Askin examines scribal culture as a framework for analysing features of textual referencing throughout the Book of Ben Sira (c.198-175 BCE), revealing new insights into how Ben Sira wrote his book of wisdom. Although the title of "scribe" is regularly applied to Ben Sira, this designation presents certain interpretive challenges. Through comparative analysis, Askin contextualizes the sage's compositional style across historical, literary, and socio-cultural spheres of operation. New light is shed on Ben Sira's text and early Jewish textual reuse. Drawing upon physical and material evidence of reading and writing, Askin reveals the dexterity and complexity of Ben Sira's sustained textual reuse. Ben Sira's achievement thus demonstrates exemplary, "excellent" writing to a receptive audience"--
Abstract:
1. Tools and techniques of scribal culture: materiality and physicality of reading and writing -- 2. Noah and Phinehas: originality and textual reuse -- 3. Hezekiah-Isaiah and Josiah: multiple source handling and harmonization -- 4. On weather: nature-lists and Ben Sira's use of Psalms and Job -- 5. Death and the body: echoes of Job, Qohelet, and ancient perspectives -- 6. The physician and piety: textual reuse and perspectives on medicine
Note:
Revised Edition der Dissertation
DOI:
10.1163/9789004372863
URL:
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