Discovering, deciphering, and dissenting : Ben Sira manuscripts after 120 years / edited by James K. Aitken, Renate Egger-Wenzel and Stefan C. Reif.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Introduction -- I. Discovery and disputes -- Notes on Jumbo's desk -- Charles Taylor as a man of St John's -- How Ben Sira crossed my path -- II. The Hebrew manuscripts and rabbinic circles -- Some first editions of Genizh manuscripts of Ben Sira -- The "booklet" of Ben Sira -- Scribal practices in Ben Sira manuscript B -- The Persian glosses and the text of manuscript B revisited -- The synoptic problem and the reception of the Ben Sira manuscripts -- Various attempts at producing a Ben Sira polyglo -- Ben Sira-biblical sage, rabbi, and payyet̲an -- Ben Sira: a rabbinic perspective -- III. The poetry of the book -- The poetry of Ben Sira manscript C -- Ben Sira's Hebrew poetry in comparison with the psalter -- Poetic imagery in the book of Ben Sira -- The theological and philosophical concepts of Ben Sira -- IV. The language of the book -- The Hebrew of the Ben Sira manuscripts from the genizah -- Transmission and transformation of Ben Sira's poetic language -- The contribution of the language of the book of Ben Sira to biblical Hebrew philology -- Biographies of authors -- Index of references -- Index of authors -- Index of subjects.

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