Benjamin G Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 1264624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin G Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin G |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT B G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lehigh University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5277-0099 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Context of Hellenistic Judea
Globalization and the “Hellenization” of Jews in the Second Temple Period
The phrase “Hellenistic Judaism” often assumes an underlying picture of the relationship between “Judaism” and “Hellenism” as self-contained cultural containers. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Philip Alexander, Gregory Sterling, and Erich Gruen argued against such an assumption, and their work moved towards developing theories of globalization, which regard cultures as porous and dynamic. Beginning from the insights of these three scholars, I…
Seeing is Believing
Using Daniel Barbu’s article ‘Aristeas the Tourist’ as a starting point, this essay focuses on the Letter of Aristeas’s ‘travelogue’ in order to show how it contributes to the construction of a Jewish identity in second century BCE Alexandria. I argue that the choice to tell the story of the translation of the Septuagint through the eyes of the fictional Gentile narrator ‘Aristeas’ and to report the sights and events in the voice of an ‘outsider’…
Wisdom, Cosmos, and Cultus in the Book of Sirach, by A. Jordan Schmidt
A. Jordan Schmidt, Wisdom, Cosmos, and Cultus in the Book of Sirach. DCLS 42. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. Hardback. Pp. xiii + 505. € 129.95/$ 149.99. ISBN 9783110601107.This volume publishes a “slightly revised version” of the author’s Catholic University of America Ph.D. dissertation. Schmidt articulates his main thesis right away: “[I]t will be demonstrated that Ben Sira’s doctrine of the well-ordered cosmos is a kind of substratum to his though…
Ἰσοδυναμέω and Translation into Greek in Sirach
The meaning of the verb ἰσοδυναμέω in the prologue to the translation of Ben Sira has often been thought to concern semantic transfer. That is, words translated into Greek do not mean the same as their Hebrew counterparts. In an earlier article, I made some suggestions about how to read the prologue as a whole. In an article that partially responded to my earlier publication, Dries De Crom examined the root ἰσοδυναμ * in texts from the fourth cen…
The Septuagint as a Hellenistic Greek Text
As a response to the tradition of scholarship that focused on questions of LXX origins, translation techniques and textual criticism, this article looks at how the LXX translations in antiquity were already in certain respects marked as Greek texts at their production, constructed as Greek literary texts in their origins, and subsequently employed in the same ways as compositional Greek texts by those who engaged them. It shows how the author of …
Conflicted Boundaries
Wisdom in Transition
Judith Weisenfeld, Hollywood Be Thy Name
Angels
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The Aramaic Levi Document
Access to the Source
This article tries to apply some insights from the modern field of Translation Studies to the relationship between translation, source text and audience in Cicero, Sirach and the Septuagint. Cicero's very free translations are possible because his audience is able to read the Greek originals that he translates. Sirach's rather literal translation is the result of adopting an approach to the Hebrew text that the grandson found operative in the Sep…
An Introduction to Early Judaism . James C. VanderKam
The Apocryphal Ezekiel
Notes on the Greek Text of Numbers
Die Septuaginta-Hapaxlegomena im Buch Jesus Sirach
The Exodus Story in the Wisdom of Solomon
This exemplary study presents the hermeneutical principles and theological tendencies of Pseudo-Solomon's biblical interpretation of the Exodus story in the Wisdom of Solomon. Why and how did the author interpret the Exodus story? What is the socio-historical function of his interpretation? Through a comparison with corresponding biblical and extra-biblical texts, the text's dominant interpretative technique is seen to be the reshaping of the bib…
The Temple Scroll
"Wright, "No Small Difference
"Muraoka's "Greek-Hebrew/Aramaic Index to I Esdras
"Lee's "Studies in Sirach
"Reiterer's "Urtext und Übersetzungen
Ἰσοδυναμέω and Translation into Greek in Sirach
The meaning of the verb ἰσοδυναμέω in the prologue to the translation of Ben Sira has often been thought to concern semantic transfer. That is, words translated into Greek do not mean the same as their Hebrew counterparts. In an earlier article, I made some suggestions about how to read the prologue as a whole. In an article that partially responded to my earlier publication, Dries De Crom examined the root ἰσοδυναμ * in texts from the fourth cen…
"Reiterer's "Urtext und Übersetzungen
"Lee's "Studies in Sirach
"Muraoka's "Greek-Hebrew/Aramaic Index to I Esdras
"Wright, "No Small Difference
The Temple Scroll
The Exodus Story in the Wisdom of Solomon
This exemplary study presents the hermeneutical principles and theological tendencies of Pseudo-Solomon's biblical interpretation of the Exodus story in the Wisdom of Solomon. Why and how did the author interpret the Exodus story? What is the socio-historical function of his interpretation? Through a comparison with corresponding biblical and extra-biblical texts, the text's dominant interpretative technique is seen to be the reshaping of the bib…
Notes on the Greek Text of Numbers
Die Septuaginta-Hapaxlegomena im Buch Jesus Sirach
An Introduction to Early Judaism . James C. VanderKam
The Apocryphal Ezekiel
Access to the Source
This article tries to apply some insights from the modern field of Translation Studies to the relationship between translation, source text and audience in Cicero, Sirach and the Septuagint. Cicero's very free translations are possible because his audience is able to read the Greek originals that he translates. Sirach's rather literal translation is the result of adopting an approach to the Hebrew text that the grandson found operative in the Sep…
The Aramaic Levi Document
Angels
We’ve built this digital research platform to provide academics everywhere with fast, stable and secure digital access to our library of over 110,000 scholarly books and 800,000 journal articles. We’ve tested the platform in close cooperation with leading academic institutions. If you have any questions or you notice something doesn’t quite work as it should, please visit our Help/FAQ page and let us know.
Judith Weisenfeld, Hollywood Be Thy Name
Wisdom in Transition
Conflicted Boundaries
The Septuagint as a Hellenistic Greek Text
As a response to the tradition of scholarship that focused on questions of LXX origins, translation techniques and textual criticism, this article looks at how the LXX translations in antiquity were already in certain respects marked as Greek texts at their production, constructed as Greek literary texts in their origins, and subsequently employed in the same ways as compositional Greek texts by those who engaged them. It shows how the author of …
Ἰσοδυναμέω and Translation into Greek in Sirach
The meaning of the verb ἰσοδυναμέω in the prologue to the translation of Ben Sira has often been thought to concern semantic transfer. That is, words translated into Greek do not mean the same as their Hebrew counterparts. In an earlier article, I made some suggestions about how to read the prologue as a whole. In an article that partially responded to my earlier publication, Dries De Crom examined the root ἰσοδυναμ * in texts from the fourth cen…
Seeing is Believing
Using Daniel Barbu’s article ‘Aristeas the Tourist’ as a starting point, this essay focuses on the Letter of Aristeas’s ‘travelogue’ in order to show how it contributes to the construction of a Jewish identity in second century BCE Alexandria. I argue that the choice to tell the story of the translation of the Septuagint through the eyes of the fictional Gentile narrator ‘Aristeas’ and to report the sights and events in the voice of an ‘outsider’…
Wisdom, Cosmos, and Cultus in the Book of Sirach, by A. Jordan Schmidt
A. Jordan Schmidt, Wisdom, Cosmos, and Cultus in the Book of Sirach. DCLS 42. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. Hardback. Pp. xiii + 505. € 129.95/$ 149.99. ISBN 9783110601107.This volume publishes a “slightly revised version” of the author’s Catholic University of America Ph.D. dissertation. Schmidt articulates his main thesis right away: “[I]t will be demonstrated that Ben Sira’s doctrine of the well-ordered cosmos is a kind of substratum to his though…
Globalization and the “Hellenization” of Jews in the Second Temple Period
The phrase “Hellenistic Judaism” often assumes an underlying picture of the relationship between “Judaism” and “Hellenism” as self-contained cultural containers. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Philip Alexander, Gregory Sterling, and Erich Gruen argued against such an assumption, and their work moved towards developing theories of globalization, which regard cultures as porous and dynamic. Beginning from the insights of these three scholars, I…
The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Context of Hellenistic Judea
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