Simon and the Actualization of Wisdom in the Jerusalem Temple

Updated by: 
Shiran Shevah
Research notes: 
SHS/not checked/11/04/2018
Reference type: 
Book section
Author(s): 
Goering, Greg Schmidt
year: 
2018
Full title: 

Simon and the Actualization of Wisdom in the Jerusalem Temple

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Figures who Shape Scriptures, Scriptures that Shape Figures: Essays in Honour of Benjamin G. Wright III
Issue / Series Volume: 
40
Series Title: 
Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies
Editor(s): 
Géza G. Xeravits
Greg Schmidt Goering
Place of Publication: 
Berlin/New York
Publisher: 
De Gruyter
Pages: 
105-124
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

Scholars have highlighted Ben Sira’s ethical teaching while downplaying his treatment of ritual. This article demonstrates that Ben Sira also held in high esteem the ritual commandments of the Torah, and it shows the centrality of Israel’s cultic piety to the sage’s understanding of Wisdom. Specifically, it argues that Ben Sira understood the activities of Simon the High Priest to be an actualization of primordial Wisdom within the Jerusalem temple. The sage constructs his portrait of Wisdom and Simon a s ideal figures from the scriptural traditions he inherited.

URL: 
https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110596373/9783110596373-007/9783110596373-007.xml
Label: 
16/04/2018
Record number: 
103 538