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Nowadays many scholars are intensively studying the Book of Ben
Sira in its different versions. One of the most intriguing aspects
relates to the great quantity of passages on the afterlife in the
various stages of the text of the Book of Ben Sira. Although
Conleth Kearns already in 1951 wrote an important doctoral thesis
on this subject, this study has never been published and circulates
only in photocopied form. Since Ben Sira scholars more and more are
convinced that this investigation is of great importance, even
after sixty years a proper publication is welcomed. In his study
Kearns distinguishes, on the one hand, the witnesses to the second
Greek and to the Latin version and, on the other hand, those to the
Hebrew text, and those to the Syriac version as well. He concludes
that there is unity of doctrine between the changes and additions
of all the textual witnesses. Therefore he can refer to 'the
expanded text'. The teachings on afterlife as found in the various
stages of the text of Ben Sira are compared with the teachings
found in Jewish literature from about 200 B.C. until 100 A.D., both
canonical - especially Daniel and the Wisdom of Solomon -, and
apocryphal or pseudepigraphical, such as 1-2 Enoch, 4 Ezra,
Jubilees, Psalms of Solomon, and Testaments of the XII Patriarchs.
The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche
Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old
Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms
in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring
cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.
The last four decades have seen a substantial progress in the study
of the Book of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) on the literary,
historical, theological, and sociological level. The discovery of
the Hebrew Ben Sira Scroll at Masada in 1964 and the find of Hebrew
Ben Sira fragments among the Dead Sea Scrolls were crucial
landmarks to encourage serious investigation into this
deuterocanonical document. Nowadays the Book of Ben Sira, which
originates from the early second Century B.C.E., is recognized more
and more as being an outstanding document of Jewish wisdom
literature and an important link between the Hebrew Bible and the
New Testament. Following a general introduction into the major
topics of recent Ben Sira research, this volume offers a detailed
study of several passages that are crucial to the book's history,
its content and structure. Important theological issues, such as
'canon and scripture', 'prophets and prophecy', 'theodicee', and
'God's mercy', are discussed as well. This study concludes with
some essays relating to the Hebrew text(s) of the Book of Ben Sira.
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