The dissertation focuses on Hebrew texts of Ben Sira. Chapter 1 covers the chosen methodologies and provides examples to justify the separation of Greek and Hebrew sources. Chapter 2 presents a selective review of previous scholarship for gender theory and for social scientific methodologies, as these relate to the current project. Chapter 3 introduces taxonomic models of <italic>gender</italic> drawn from the Book of Ben Sira and from Greek sources. Chapter 4 delimits what &ldquogender&rdquo means for the project. The application of theories of colonial influence and proverb performance results in a list of passages for extensive analysis. Chapter 5 begins the extensive analyses with passages that pertain to the figure of Wisdom, to male/female pairs, and to human females. Chapter 6 concludes the extensive analyses, featuring passages that relate to Eve and passages with erotic content. Chapter 7 reviews the results of the analyses and comments on them as a whole.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-03282011-143232 |
| Date | 28 March 2011 |
| Creators | Ellis, Teresa Ann |
| Contributors | Leo G. Perdue |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-03282011-143232/ |
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