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This collection of 24 essays reflects broader trends of research on Ben Sira in the past two decades. The author is not only concerned with the complex textual problems of the book, but also with what light may be shed on it by the application of approaches from cultural and feminist studies. She examines, for example, the gender theamtic, the usage of metaphorical language, and the issue of scent and fragrance in the text of Ben Sira.

Professor Maurice Gilbert SJ is widely acknowledged as one of the leading authorities on biblical wisdom literature, in particular the Book of Ben Sira and the Wisdom of Solomon, on which he has produced many publications. This Festschrift, the third one in his honor, brings together twenty-four essays written by both established scholars who are friends and colleagues of Professor Gilbert and younger members of the field who wrote their doctoral dissertation under his guidance at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. There he was rector (1978-1984) and full professor until his...