Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE BEN SIRA AND EARLY JEWISH WISDOM

Chapter One Wisdom and Women at Qumran

Chapter Two From Generation to Generation: The Sage as Father in Early Jewish Literature

Chapter Three The Categories of Rich and Poor in the Qumran Sapiential Literature

Chapter Four "Who has been Tested by Gold and Found Perfect?" Ben Sira's Discourse of Riches and Poverty (with Claudia V. Camp)

Chapter Five "Fear the Lord and Honor the Priest": Ben Sira as Defender of the Jerusalem Priesthood

Chapter Six "Put the Nations in Fear of You": Ben Sira and the Problem of Foreign Rule

Chapter Seven Wisdom, Instruction and Social Location in Ben Sira and 1 Enoch

Chapter Eight Ben Sira on the Sage as Exemplar

Chapter Nine B. Sanhedrin 100b and Rabbinic Knowledge of Ben Sira

PART TWO THE LETTER OF ARISTEAS AND THE SEPTUAGINT

Chapter Ten The Jewish Scriptures in Greek: The Septuagint in the Context of Ancient Translation Activity

Chapter Eleven ΔΟΥΛΟΣ—Terms and Social Status in the Meeting of Hebrew-Biblical and Hellenistic-Roman Culture

Chapter Twelve Access to the Source: Cicero, Ben Sira, The Septuagint and Their Audiences

Chapter Thirteen The Letter of Aristeas and the Reception History of the Septuagint

Chapter Fourteen Translation as Scripture: The Septuagint in Aristeas and Philo

Chapter Fifteen Three Jewish Ritual Practices in Aristeas §§158–160

Index