Ben Sira On Family, Gender, And Sexuality

ISBN: 9783110247466 出版年：2011 页码：344 Balla, Ibolya De Gruyter

The book investigates Ben Sira′s attitudes toward all matters pertaining to sexuality in the context of family relations and gender issues. The author′s seemingly negative attitude to women, the anxiety expressed in the discussions of marital and extramarital relations, and the disciplining of children can lead to the assumption that the work has a negative attitude toward sexuality. Ben Sira′s book is a combination of carefully composed wisdom poems and of teachings on everyday issues, including marriage, family life, self-control, desires, and sexual promiscuity. The sage dedicates a greater number of passages than other wisdom books to the discussion of social relations especially in regard to family. In so doing his regular point of departure seems to be what benefits or damages these relations mean, and whether they bring disgrace to a person, especially through sexuality.