The Texts and Versions of the Book of Ben Sira: Transmission and Interpretation

2011 Brill hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: 1. 'An Alternative Hebrew Form of Ben Sira: the Anthological Manuscript C' by Jeremy Corley; 2. 'Reconstructions and Retroversions: Chances and Challenges to the Hebrew Ben Sira Text' by Pancratius C. Beentjes; 3. 'Wordplay in the Hebrew to Ben Sira' by Eric D. Reymond; 4. 'Animal Imagery in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sirach' by Nuria Calduch-Benages; 5. 'Translation Greek in Sirach in Light of the Grandson's Prologue' by Benjamin G. Wright III; 6. 'The Literary Attainment of the Translator of Greek Sirach' by J. K. Aitken; 7. 'Le metier de scribe - un metier different: quelques reflexions a partir de la version grecque de Siracide 38-39' by Francoise Vinel; 8. 'Ben Sira in the Syriac Tradition' by Wido van Peursen; 9. 'Archaic Elements in the Syriac Version of Ben Sira' by Jan Joosten; 10. 'Christian Features in the Peshitta Text of Ben Sira: the Question of Dependency on the Syriac New Testament' by Robert J. Owens; 11. 'The Old Latin Version of Sirach: Editio Critica and Textual Problems' by Anthony J. Forte; 12. 'La version latine de Ben Sira: etat de la question, essai de classement thematique des 'additions'' by Thierry Legrand; 13. 'The Additions to Ben Sira and the Book's Multiform Textual Witness' by Jason Gile; 14. 'L'esperance post-mortem dans les differentes versions du Siracide' by Jean-Sebastien Rey; 15. 'La priere de Ben Sira dans les manuscrits hebreux et dans les versions anciennes' by Maria Carmela Palmisano; 16. 'La sagesse dans les beatitudes de Ben Sira: etude du texte de Si 51,13-30 et de Si 14,20-15,10' by Emile Puech.…