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Journal Article
THE SEMANTIC SHIFT OF םינפ אשנ AND תשב IN BEN SIRA IN ITS HELLENISTIC CONTEXT
2019
Overview
In two cases, Ben Sira deals with the ambivalence of shame: 4,21-24 and 41,14 – 42,8. There are cases in which shame is negative and brings about bad things, and there are cases in which shame is desirable and good. While the negative sense of shame is the common meaning in Biblical Hebrew, the positive sense may belong to the Hellenistic period. In these two pericopes the meaning of the expression פנים נשא, which parallels the verb בוש (Sir 4,22; 42,1), seems also to have undergone a semantic shift, but its exact meaning is disputed. This essay suggests a solution to the dispute regarding the expression פניםנשא by tracing its translational tradition in the Septuagint, and by examining the related expression פנים הכיר. A novel approach is adopted in interpreting these passages, using the Septuagint as a dictionary for the Hebrew of the Hellenistic period. In order to understand the semantic development of both this expression and the concept of shame in general during the Hellenistic period, the second part of the paper draws attention to the ambivalence of the concept of shame in Greek literature. This data may shed new light on the reason for the semantic shift of these terms in Ben Sira’s time. Furthermore, this may also contribute to the expanding discussion of Jewish wisdom literature from the Hellenistic period against the background of its time and place.
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Peeters Publishers
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