Full title
Ben Sira’s Teaching on Prayer: The Example of the Generations of Old
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Research notes
SHS/not checked/14/11/2019
Reference type
Editor(s)
Nuria Calduch-Benages
Michael W. Duggan
Dalia Marx
Year
2019
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
On Wings of Prayer: Sources of Jewish Worship; Essays in Honor of Professor Stefan C. Reif on the Occasion of his Seventy-fifth Birthday
Issue / Series Volume
44
Series Title
Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies
Publisher
de Gruyter
Place of Publication
Berlin/Boston
Pages
37-54
Work type
Label
02/12/2019
Abstract
Prayer is an important theme in Ben Sira’s teaching. Our aim is not to offer a comprehensive view of his teaching on prayer but to study one of its many aspects more deeply. In the present article, we wish to show that in Ben Sira’s “school of prayer” the example of the generations of old plays a fundamental role. In this connection, we consider four texts where the verb / קרא ἐπικαλέομαι (“call on/beseech”) is used in a context of prayer: Sir 2:10d; 46:5a; 46:16a and 47:5a.