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Ben Sira on family, gender, and sexuality [[electronic resource] /] / Ibolya Balla



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Autore: Balla Ibolya Visualizza persona
Titolo: Ben Sira on family, gender, and sexuality [[electronic resource] /] / Ibolya Balla Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (341 p.)
Disciplina: 229/.407
Soggetto topico: Families - Biblical teaching
Sex role - Biblical teaching
Sex - Biblical teaching
Soggetto non controllato: Ben Sira
Family
Gender
Second Temple
Sexuality
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Introduction with literature review and methodology -- Chapter 1: Respect for fathers and mothers and the treatment of widows -- Chapter 2: The anxiety of bringing up children: teachings on sons and daughters -- Chapter 3: Teachings on marital relationships -- Chapter 4: Teachings on sexual behaviour that is either illicit and/or discouraged, including adultery and approaching prostitutes, virgins, maidservants -- Chapter 5: Wisdom poems -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index of modern authors -- Index of ancient texts
Sommario/riassunto: The book investigates Ben Sira's attitudes toward all matters pertaining to sexuality in the context of family relations and gender issues. The author's seemingly negative attitude to women, the anxiety expressed in the discussions of marital and extramarital relations, and the disciplining of children can lead to the assumption that the work has a negative attitude toward sexuality. Ben Sira's book is a combination of carefully composed wisdom poems and of teachings on everyday issues, including marriage, family life, self-control, desires, and sexual promiscuity. The sage dedicates a greater number of passages than other wisdom books to the discussion of social relations especially in regard to family. In so doing his regular point of departure seems to be what benefits or damages these relations mean, and whether they bring disgrace to a person, especially through sexuality. In addition, we have to make a distinction between the attitudes of the writer of the original Hebrew text of the book and that of the Greek translator. The two texts, produced in different social settings, times and places, differ at times in regard to sexuality. This book examines the wisdom poems, some characterized by openness about issues of eroticism, and all sayings that concern matters pertaining to sexuality found in discussions of passions, family relations and gender issues, and warnings against sexual wrongdoing. All this is done with a special regard to the differences between the Hebrew original text and the Greek translation.
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ISBN: 1-283-16609-7
9786613166098
3-11-024747-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910789690103321
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Serie: Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies ; ; v. 8.