Full title
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Theology in Ben Sira 17:25–18:14
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Research notes
SHS/not checekd/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
55-70
Work type
Label
02/12/2019
Abstract
The call to repentance in Ben Sira 17:25-18:14 matches the liturgical theology of the penitential days from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur, expressed in the much later liturgical poem entitled Unetanneh Toqeph. Motifs from Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur appear in the Syriac text of Sir 18:1 (“all the world is on trial”), while the Syriac of Sir 18:7 declares: “If they repent, they will be amazed.” Parallels also exist with the Neilah prayer that closes the synagogue liturgy for the Day of Atonement, and both Sir 17:29 and 18:12 speak of God’s atonement.