商品簡介
Balla presents a revision of her 2008 doctoral dissertation Attitudes Toward Sexuality in the Book of Ben Sira at Murdock University, Australia. She identifies and analyzes all the passages in the longest Jewish wisdom book that reveal attitudes about such matters as marriage, family life, self-control, desires and passions, and sexual promiscuity. She covers respect for fathers and mothers and the treatment of widows; the anxiety of bringing up children: teachings on sons and daughters; teachings on marital relationships; teachings on adultery, approaching prostitutes, and other sexual behavior that is either illicit or discouraged; and wisdom poems. Readers with some knowledge of Hebrew will have an easier time. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Ibolya Balla, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia.
