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Ben Sira on Family, Gender, and Sexuality (Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies, Vol. 8) by Ibolya Balla is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 ch

Who reads Ben Sira on Family, Gender, and Sexuality (Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies, Vol. 8)?

Author

Ibolya Balla

Publisher

Saur, K. G., Verlag. ein Imprint der Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110247466

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Bible