The Sage in Relation: Family in Ben Sira's House of Discipline

by Andrew Montanaro, Andrew, Andrew Montanaro

The Jewish sage Ben Sira links the partnership of the sage with personified Wisdom to his overall teaching on marriage and family. This study provides a detailed analysis of this connection, first, by describing the overlapping characteristics of fathers in families and sages among their students as seen through an examination of Ben Sira's use of metaphorical family language, whereby the sage takes the role of father in the pedagogical setting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311075228X
• ISBN13: 9783110752281
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 360 Pages