“Bread to the Hungry and Clothes to the Naked”: A History of a Prophetic-Sapiential Motif from Tobit to the Syriac of Ben SiraDeuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 47Syriaca.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/7JKQTGAU/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Bradley C.Gregory“Bread to the Hungry and Clothes to the Naked”: A History of a Prophetic-Sapiential Motif from Tobit to the Syriac of Ben Sirahttp://syriaca.org/cbss/7JKQTGAUhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/7JKQTGAUhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/7JKQTGAUFrancis M.MacatangayFrancisco-JavierRuiz-OrtizBen Sira in Conversation with Traditions: A Festschrift for Prof. Núria Calduch-Benages on the Occasion of Her 65th BirthdayBerlinWalter de Gruyter202295-107Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 47The article traces the background and history of the prophetic-sapiential motif “bread to the hungry and clothes to the naked” as it appears in Tobit, the Sibylline Oracles 1–2, Pseudo-Phocylides, the Gospel of Matthew, and 2 Enoch, ultimately finding its way into the Syriac addition in Sir 29:28. It shows that the motif became central to the shared theological and ethical vision in Judaism and Christianity in the early centuries of the Common Era.
Gregory, Bradley C. “‘Bread to the Hungry and Clothes to the Naked’: A History of a Prophetic-Sapiential Motif from Tobit to the Syriac of Ben Sira.” In Ben Sira in Conversation with Traditions: A Festschrift for Prof. Núria Calduch-Benages on the Occasion of Her 65th Birthday, edited by Francis M. Macatangay and Francisco-Javier Ruiz-Ortiz, 95–107. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 47. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2022.
Bradley C. Gregory, ‘Bread to the Hungry and Clothes to the Naked’: A History of a Prophetic-Sapiential Motif from Tobit to the Syriac of Ben Sira, in Ben Sira in Conversation with Traditions: A Festschrift for Prof. Núria Calduch-Benages on the Occasion of Her 65th Birthday, ed. Francis M. Macatangay and Francisco-Javier Ruiz-Ortiz, Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 47 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2022), 95–107.Ben SiraOT apocryphaOld TestamentPeshitta OTcharity