The Treatment of Poverty and Theodicy in the Syriac Translation of Ben Sira

The Treatment of Poverty and Theodicy in the Syriac Translation of Ben SiraAramaic StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/226Z4UKN/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.MichalBar-Asher SiegalThe Treatment of Poverty and Theodicy in the Syriac Translation of Ben Sirahttp://syriaca.org/cbss/226Z4UKNhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/226Z4UKNhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/226Z4UKNAramaic Studies7:22009131-154This paper is aimed to address the relationship between the Hebrew and the Syriac versions of Ben Sira—and it will try to expose a coherent agenda on the part of the Syriac translator, explaining at least some of the differences between the two versions. The Syriac translator felt obliged to change the content of the original text’s treatment of evil. He tended to stress human choice and mute Ben Sira’s allusions to predestination and God’s creation of Evil. Pointing out this tendency offers new perspectives on earlier scholarship, especially Winter (1977), who claimed that the Syriac version was biased against wealth. Bar-Asher Siegal, Michal. “The Treatment of Poverty and Theodicy in the Syriac Translation of Ben Sira.” Aramaic Studies 7:2 (2009): 131–54. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, The Treatment of Poverty and Theodicy in the Syriac Translation of Ben Sira, Aramaic Studies 7:2 (2009): 131–54.Ben SiraOld TestamentPeshitta OTevilpovertytheodicy