TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skehan, Patrick W.
AU  - 
TI  - The Wisdom of Ben Sira
T2  - The Anchor Bible
SN  - 9780385135177
U1  - 229.4077 
CY  - U.S.A.
KW  - Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
N2  - The Wisdom of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) contains the sayings of Ben Sira, arguably the last of Israel's wise men and its first professional scribe, whose world was defined and dominated by Greek ideas and ideals. This Hellenistic worldview challenged the adequacy of the religion passed down to the Palestinian Jews of the second century B.C.E. by their ancestors. Ben Sira's training in both Judaic and Hellenistic literary traditions prepared him to meet this challenge. He vigorously opposed any compromise of Jewish values
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ER  -