Family and Kinship in the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature: Yearbook, 2012/2013, Family and Kinship in the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature

Main description: This volume discusses various conceptions of family and kinship in the context of deuterocanonical literature. After analyzing the topic family in a narrow sense of the term, the articles investigate general ideas of morality, respect, or love and take a critical look at representations of gender, power, and social norms in Judaism and Early Christianity Preface 5 Abbreviations 11 From Tobit to Ben Sira: from nostalgia to the recovery of fatherhood 15 The Emotional Relationship of the Married Couple Hannah and Tobit 55 Tobit and Tobias: A Model for an Ideal Father-Son Relationship 91 “I Am My Father’s Only Daughter.” Sarah’s Unbalanced Relationship with Her Parents in the Book of Tobit 101 The relationship between husband and wife according to Sirach 25-26, 36 121 Polygamy in Ben Sira? 141 Respect and Care for Parents in Sirach 3:1-16 153 “The wisdom teaches their sons” (Sir 4:11). And the daughters? - Sons of Ben Sirach 187 Daughters and Their Father(s) in the Book of Ben Sira 197 Occasions when Wisdom replaces the Mother as Educator in Sirach and the Related Literature 217 The Fate of the Impious and of their Families 235 “I loved [Wisdom] and sought her from my youth; I desired to take her for my Counsellor” (Wis 8:2a). Solomon and Wisdom: An example of the Closest Intimacy 243 Esther’s Family: Ethnicity, Politics and Religion 267 The Praise of the Widow? Changes in the Judith Narrative 287 The Family Measure in 2 Maccabees: A Mother and Her Seven Sons (2 Macc 7:1-42) 297 Religious identity and its development. What may Children learn from their Elders? 315 Parents Rejoice Over Their Children: Examples in the Psalms 345 Jerusalem as Mother in Bar 4:5-5:9 377 Family Relationships in 4QInstruction 391 Illicit Unions, Hybrid Sonship, and Intermarriage in Second Temple Judaism. 1 Enoch, Book of Giants, Jubilees 419 Marriage and Family in Flavius Josephus’s Contra Apionem (II, § 199–206) against its Hellenistic background 469 Contingencies and Innovations in the Household Codes of the Pauline Traditions (Col 3:18-4:1; Eph 5:21-6:9) 481 Born or re-born? Identity and family bonds in 1 Peter and 4 Maccabees 495 The Fathership of God in Early Rabbinic Liturgy 519 The Role of the Family in Traditional Judaism 541 The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah in the Venerable Bede’s Commentary on Tobit 561 Authors 573 Index of Modern Authors 575 Index of References 587 Index of Subjects 595

Beginning in 2004, De Gruyter publishes the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature · Yearbook (DCLY) in cooperation with the International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature. The Society is devoted to the study of the books of the Greek Bible (Septuagint), not contained in the Hebrew Bible, and to later Jewish literature, comprising approximately the time between the 3rd century B.C.E. and the 1st century C.E. The yearbooks contain the papers of the international conferences held by the Society.

Volumes from 2005 to 2011 are available online.

– Prayer from Tobit to Qumran, ed. by Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jeremy Corley (2004)
– The Book of Wisdom in Modern Research, ed. by Angelo Passaro, Giuseppe Bellia, John J. Collins (2005)
– History and Identity, ed. by Núria Calduch-Benages and Jan Liesen (2006)
– Angels, ed. by Friedrich Reiterer, Tobias Nicklas and Karin Schöpflin (2007)
– Biblical Figures in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, ed. by Hermann Lichtenberger and Ulrike Mittmann-Richert (2008)
– The Human Body in Death and Resurrection, ed. by Tobias Nicklas, Friedrich Reiterer, Joseph Verheyden (2009)

Seit 2004 gibt der Verlag De Gruyter in Zusammenarbeit mit der International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature das Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature · Yearbook (DCLY) heraus. Die Gesellschaft widmet sich dem Studium der Bücher der griechischen Bibel (Septuaginta), die nicht in der hebräischen Bibel enthalten sind, und der späteren jüdischen Literatur, also etwa aus der Zeit vom 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis zum 1. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Die Jahrbücher publizieren die Referate und Ergebnisse der internationalen Konferenzen der Gesellschaft. Die Ausgaben 2005 bis 2011 sind weiterhin online erhältlich. – Prayer from Tobit to Qumran, ed. by Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jeremy Corley (2004) – The Book of Wisdom in Modern Research, ed. by Angelo Passaro, Giuseppe Bellia, John J. Collins (2005) – History and Identity, ed. by Núria Calduch-Benages and Jan Liesen (2006) – Angels, ed. by Friedrich Reiterer, Tobias Nicklas and Karin Schöpflin (2007) – Biblical Figures in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, ed. by Hermann Lichtenberger and Ulrike Mittmann-Richert (2008) – The Human Body in Death and Resurrection, ed. by Tobias Nicklas, Friedrich Reiterer, Joseph Verheyden (2009) Main description: Der vorliegende Band diskutiert unterschiedliche Konzepte von Familie und Verwandtschaft im Kontext deuterokanonischer Literatur. Neben einer Analyse des Begriffs der Familie im engeren Wortsinn untersuchen die einzelnen Beiträge Vorstellungen von Moral, Respekt undLiebe und nehmen zudem Repräsentationen von gender, Macht und sozialen Normen in Judentum und dem frühen Christentum kritisch in den Blick "This volume discusses various conceptions of family and kinship in the context of deuterocanonical literature. After analyzing the topic family in a narrow sense of the term, the articles investigate general ideas of morality, respect, or love and take a critical look at representations of gender, power, and social norms in Judaism and early Christianity."--Back cover Biographical note: Angelo Passaro, Facoltà teologica di Sicilia "San Giovanni Evangelista", Palermo, Italien Biographical note: Angelo Passaro, Facoltà teologica di Sicilia "San Giovanni Evangelista", Palermo, Italy