"This edition includes a new preface and some corrections from the original text."--Publishers' preface "Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program."--T.p. verso "Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references.
An "analysis of gender not only in the biblical (Apocrypha) book of Sirach but in literature from the Second Temple period more broadly. Trenchard's study remains important for thinking about "misogyny" in the ancient world, in all of its literary as well as cultural dimensions."--Publishers' preface
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Bible.--Ecclesiasticus--Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible.--Ecclesiasticus.