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"Beguile Your Soul" (Sir XIV 16; XXX 23): An Epicurean Theme in Ben Sira

Holloway, Paul A.

Vetus Testamentum, 2008-01, Vol.58 (2), p.219-234 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers

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  • Título:
    "Beguile Your Soul" (Sir XIV 16; XXX 23): An Epicurean Theme in Ben Sira
  • Autor: Holloway, Paul A.
  • Assuntos: Death ; Epicureanism ; Exegesis and biblical criticism ; Grief ; Hellenistic philosophy ; History and sciences of religions ; Old testament ; Platonism ; Pleasure ; Poetical and wisdom books ; Self deception ; Sirach ; Soul ; Stoicism ; Wisdom
  • É parte de: Vetus Testamentum, 2008-01, Vol.58 (2), p.219-234
  • Descrição: During the Hellenistic period, the different philosophical schools developed different theories and techniques of consolation. Epicurean technique called for distracting the mourner by pleasant memories and was widely practiced, even by those who were not philosophical hedonists. The technique was altered slightly as it passed into popular use, where in it came to be conceived as a kind of mental dissimulation or even as a therapeutic "beguiling" of the mind by any of a number of pleasant distractions. This forms the likely background to Ben Sira's advice to those confronting death at xiv 16 and xxx 23 to "beguile your soul," an observation that provides further evidence of Ben Sira's contact with and measured appropriation of Hellenistic intellectual culture.
  • Editor: Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers
  • Idioma: Inglês
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