Preface

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I. INTRODUCTORY MATTERS

Maurice Gilbert, S.J. The Vetus Latina of Ecclesiasticus

Frank Feder The Coptic Version(s) of the Book of Jesus Sirach

Gabriele Boccaccini Where Does Ben Sira Belong? The Canon, Literary Genre, Intellectual Movement, and Social Group of a Zadokite Document

Stefan Schorch The Pre‐eminence of the Hebrew Language and the Emerging Concept of the “Ideal Text” in Late Second Temple Judaism

Armin Lange “The Law, the Prophets, and the Other Books of the Fathers” (Sir, Prologue) Canonical Lists in Ben Sira and Elsewhere?

II. THE WISDOM TEACHING OF BEN SIRA

Nuria Calduch‐Benages “Cut Her Away from your Flesh.” Divorce in Ben Sira

Friedrich V. Reiterer Das Verhältnis der # zur # im Buch Ben Sira.Kriterien zur gegenseitigen Bestimmung

József Zsengellér Does Wisdom Come from the Temple? Ben Sira’s Attitude to the Temple of Jerusalem

III. THE PRAISE OF THE FATHERS

Jeremy Corley Sirach 44:1‐15 as Introduction to the Praise of the Ancestors

Benjamin G. Wright III The Use and Interpretation of Biblical Traditionin Ben Sira’s Praise of the Ancestors

Pancratius C. Beentjes Ben Sira 44:19‐23—The Patriarchs.Text, Tradition, Theology

Matthias Weigold Noah in the Praise of the Fathers: The Flood Story in Nuce

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Cited Passages