Book of Ben Sira in Hebrew: A Text Edition of All Extant Hebrew Manuscripts and a Synopsis of All Parallel Hebrew Ben Sira Texts (Vetus Testamentum Supplements): 68 - Hardcover

Beentjes, P C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004107673 ISBN 13: 9789004107670

Publisher: Brill, 1997

Synopsis

This volume deals with the Hebrew texts of all nine manuscripts discovered between 1896 and 1982 of the Book of Ben Sira that is reckoned among the deuterocanonical biblical wisdom literature and was written in Jerusalem about 180 BCE. In the first part of this volume the Hebrew manuscripts are offered in facsimile, i.e. presenting the real textual state of the recovered texts. The second part of this volume offers in a more convenient and functional way than in former text editions a synopsis of all Hebrew Ben Sira texts which are available in more than one manuscript.

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Review:

'Die Edition, die B. vorlegt, hat den grossen Vorteil, dass sie das gesamte, bisher bekannt gewordene Text-Material des hebraischen Sirach so darbietet, wie es in den Hss bezeugt ist. Sie ist eine willkommene unverzichtbare Hilfe fur alle, die sich mit dem Text des Sirach-Buchs beschaftigen und diese Schrift interpretieren wollen.' Josef Schreiner, Biblische Zeitschrift, 1998. 'Il faudra dorenavant pour toute traduction de Ben Sira tenir compte de ce precieux ouvrage.' N.E., Irenikon, 2000.

About the Author:

Pancratius C. Beentjes, Ph.D. (1981) in Theology, Catholic Theological University at Amsterdam, is Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at the Catholic Theological University at Utrecht. He has published extensively on the Book of Ben Sira.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 9004107673
• ISBN 13: 9789004107670
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192