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Gender in the Book of Ben Sira - Divine Wisdom, Erotic Poetry, and the Garden of Eden (Hardcover)
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Gender in the Book of Ben Sira - Divine Wisdom, Erotic Poetry, and the Garden of Eden (Hardcover)
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
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Gender in the Book of Ben Sira is a semantic analysis and, also, an
investigation of hermeneutical pathways for performing such an
analysis. A comparison of possible Greek and Hebrew gender
taxonomies precedes the extensive delineation of the
target-category, gender. The delineation includes invisible
influences in the Book of Ben Sira such as the author's choices of
genre and his situation as a member of a colonized group within a
Hellenistic empire. When the Book of Ben Sira's genre-constrained
invectives against women and male fools are excluded, the remaining
expectations for women and for men are mostly equivalent, in terms
of a pious life lived according to Torah. However, Ben Sira says
nothing about distinctions at the level of how "living according to
Torah" would differ for the two groups. His book presents an Edenic
ideal of marriage through allusions to Genesis 1 to 4, and a
substantial overlap of erotic discourse for the female figures of
Wisdom and the "intelligent wife" creates tropes similar to those
of the Song of Songs. In addition, Ben Sira's colonial status
affects what he says and how he says it; by writing in Hebrew, he
could craft the Greek genres of encomium and invective to carry
multiple levels of meaning that subvert Hellenistic/Greek claims to
cultural superiority.
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