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**Sapientialised Priest?: Reconsidering the Priestly Torah in Sirach** by JiSeong James Kwon is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Abstract Scholars have maintained that Ben Sira belongs to a priestly group, or a circle of scribe-sages subjugated to priests, and that the book of Sirach hints at a merger of the created and priestly orders. The book’s harmonization of sapiential and Zadokite strands of Judaism might justify its identification with Jerusalemite priestly groups, but it is misleading to conclude that Sirach merges these two separate traditions. Its wisdom discourses are an adaptation of Proverbs in which Ben Sira, as a Jewish scribe, grants authority and power to the Zadokites on the model of Proverbs’ divine wisdom.

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Author
JiSeong James Kwon
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Published
2022
Language
EN
Field
Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

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