Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Muraoka, Wisdom of Ben Sira (Peeters, open access)

NEW BOOK FROM PEETERS:
Wisdom of Ben Sira

PRICE: 135 euro
YEAR: 2023
ISBN: 9789042949140
E-ISBN: 9789042949157
PAGES: XIV-807 p.

SERIES:
Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, 302

AUTHOR:
Muraoka T.

SUMMARY:
A philological commentary on the book of Ben Sira accompanied by a full translation of the Greek text in the Septuagint. Similar in content to the book of Proverbs, and though not canonical, but read and studied by the ancient Jewish community, as shown by a considerable quantity of fragments of its Hebrew original discovered in a storage room of a synagogue in Cairo and among the documents discovered in Qumran caves and the Judaean Desert. All these data as well as two ancient Syriac translations have been fully taken into account.

This book is published open access. It can be downloaded here.

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