volume 13, issue 2, 2021, pages 236-265

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsCQBJ9928
Published online: 2021-12-01
Published in print: 2021-12-30

Abstract: Semantic and poetic analysis of the poem “on endeavour for wisdom” (6:18-37) in the Book of Ben Sira reveals thorough and solicitous effort of its author in his attempt to persuade an aspirant for wisdom that his endeavour and difficulties related to the ways of wisdom are worth undergoing and he will reach its goal. The way to the wisdom requires of aspirant disposition to various attitudes, especially to listening to the elders who have already had a share in some wisdom. Wisdom itself, after all, is a gift from the Most High, who will bring Studia Biblica Slovaca Pavel Prihatný 265 the candidate to its obtaining. The Poem itself is a beautiful composition, structurally well premeditated and interwoven with some rich poetic techniques.