Ben Sira on Family, Gender, and Sexuality
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Ibolya Balla
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Ben Sira on Family, Gender, and Sexuality
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110247473
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Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature StudiesISSN
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< >The Book of Ben Sira, the longest Jewish wisdom book, is a combination of wisdom poems about a personified female wisdom figure, and of teachings on everyday issues including marriage, family life, self-control, desires, and sexual promiscuity. Its author demonstrates an anxiety regarding matters of sexuality in the discussions of social relations, including marriage, family life, and in warnings against sexual wrongdoing.
This study examines all teachings concerning sexuality in the context of family relations and gender issues with a special regard to the differences between the Hebrew original text of the book and its Greek translation.
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Ibolya Balla
, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia.
Acknowledgments
6
Table of contents
8
Introduction with literature review and methodology
12
Chapter 1: Respect for fathers and mothers and the treatment of widows
22
1.1 Attitude toward fathers and mothers
22
Sir 3:1-16
22
Sir 7:27-28
33
Sir 23:14
34
Sir 41:17a
36
1.2 The treatment of widows (and orphans)
38
Sir 4:10
40
Sir 35:17-18[=32(35):17-19]
42
1.3 Condusion
42
Chapter 2: The anxiety of bringing up children: teachings on sons and daughters
44
Sir 7:23-25
48
Sir 22:3-5
51
Sir 42:9-14
54
Sir 26:10-12 in the context of 26:7-12
61
2.1 Condusion
65
Chapter 3: Teachings on marital relationships
68
3.1 Good relations between husband and wife
68
Sir 25:ld
25:8c(8a)68
Sir 26:1-4.13-18
72
Sir 36:21(26)-26(31)
80
Sir 40:19.23
91
3.2 Wicked wives and bad marriages
94
Sir7:19.26
94
Sir 25:13-26
98
Sir 42:6a
106
3.3 Women who have influence or power over men
108
Sir 9:1.2
108
Sir 33:20ab
112
3.4 Rivalry between wives
113
Sir 26:5-6
113
Sir 37:11a
117
3.5 Miscellaneous parallels concerning both virtuous and wicked women
118
Sir 26:22-27
118
3.6 Conclusion
121
Chapter 4: Teachings on sexual behaviour that is either illicit and/or discouraged, including adultery and approaching prostitutes, virgins, maidservants
124
4.1 Prostitution, adultery, and the idea of
124
4.1 Prostitution, adultery, and the idea of
124
4.1 Prostitution, adultery, and the idea of
124
4.1 Prostitution, adultery, and the idea of
124
124
124
Sir 9:3I.3II 46-7.8-9
124
Sir 23:16-27
141
Sir 25:2d
148
Sir 26:19-21
150
Sir 41:20b.21c
151
Sir 42:8b
155
Sir 47:19-21
156
4.2 Teachings on virgins/young women and maidservants
161
Sir 9:5
161
Sir 20:4
30:(19-)20
4.3 Unruly passions and self-control
167
Sir 6:l(2)-3(4)
167
Sir 18:30-19:3
171
Sir 23:4-6
175
4.4 Conclusion
178
Chapter 5: Wisdom poems
180
Sir l:l-l0
181
Sir 4:11-19
185
Sir 6:18-31
192
Sir 14:20-15:10
198
Sir 24:1-22
206
Sir 51:13-30
217
5.1 Conclusion
228
Chapter 6: Conclusion
230
Appendix
242
Bibliography
300
Index of modern authors
316
Index of ancient texts
320
