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  Ben Sira: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Prologue to Ben Sira is generally considered the earliest witness to a canon of the books of the prophets.
Ben Sira was used as the basis for two important parts of the Jewish liturgy.
Ben Sira apparently provides the vocabulary and framework for many of the Amidah's blessings.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/be/ben_sira.htm   (2459 words)

  
 Orion Center: Current Bibliography
Duggan, Michael W. ra, Scribe and Priest, and the Concerns of Ben Sira." In Intertextual Studies in Ben Sira and Tobit: Essays in Honor of Alexander A. Di Lella, eds.
""Multum in parvo": Ben Sira's Portrayal of the Patriarch Joseph." In Intertextual Studies in Ben Sira and Tobit: Essays in Honor of Alexander A. Di Lella, eds.
Perdue, Leo G. "Ben Sira and the Prophets." In Intertextual Studies in Ben Sira and Tobit: Essays in Honor of Alexander A. Di Lella, eds.
orion.huji.ac.il /resources/bib/current.shtml   (12856 words)

  
 Eric Reymond, PHD proposal, A Structural Analysis of Ben Sira 40:11- 44:15
In order to describe more precisely the structure of Ben Sira's poetry, my analysis will borrow from recent methods of poetic analysis where the types of parallelism and their distributions are separated out and described independently through charts and prose analysis.
With the discovery of Hebrew versions of Ben Sira among the Cairo Geniza manuscripts, scholars were for the first time able to analyze and discuss the qualities of Ben Sira's Hebrew.
It was not until the unearthing of fragments of a Ben Sira manuscript at Masada that a scholarly consensus has formed around the idea that the Hebrew versions, both from the Geniza and from Masada, point to a Hebrew Vorlage.
oi.uchicago.edu /OI/DEPT/RA/DISPROP/Reymond_diss.html   (5660 words)

  
 The Book of Delight and Other Papers - Notes (Israel Abrahams)
The main story discussed in this essay is translated from the so-called "Alphabet of Ben Sira,” the edition used being Steinschneider’s (Alphabetum Siracidis, Berlin, 1858).
The author is not the Ben Sira who wrote the Wisdom book in the Apocrypha, but the ascription of it to him led to the incorporation of some legends concerning him.
In another adventure he attaches himself to the carcass of a slaughtered animal, and is borne aloft by a vulture.
www.authorama.com /delight-10.html   (4197 words)

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