Poetic Imagery in the Book of Ben Sira: A Case Study of Sir 21:1–10
Updated by:
Shiran Shevah
Research notes:
SHS/not checked/05/02/2019
Reference type:
Book section
year:
2019
Full title:
Poetic Imagery in the Book of Ben Sira: A Case Study of Sir 21:1–10
Journal / Book Title || Series Title:
Discovering, Deciphering and Dissenting: Ben Sira Manuscripts after 120 Years
Series Title:
Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies
Editor(s):
James K. Aitken
Renate Egger-Wenzel
Stefan C. Reif
Place of Publication:
Berlin/Boston
Publisher:
de Gruyter
Pages:
267-284
Work type:
Essay/Monograph
Abstract:
Rather than studying one metaphor in particular, or various types of metaphors (e.g., zoological, botanical, astronomical, liturgical), or else a single type of metaphor, we intend here to concentrate our attention on Sir 21:1-10 as a case study. After a brief look at some formal questions concerning the text, we shall examine the more important images (similes and metaphors) that Ben Sira uses in this religious instruction and that serve as examples of sin. With his use of figurative vocabulary, the sage enters himself into a direct relationship with the sapiential genre.
Primary Texts: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha:
Composition / Author:
Ben Sira
Passage:
21:1-10
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110614473/9783110614473-015/9783110614473-015.xml
Label:
18/02/2019
Record number:
104 423