{"title":"PRAYER AS THE BEST WAY OF KNOWING GOD: BEN SIRACH IN ITS JEWISH CONTEXT AND IN LATER CHRISTIAN LITERATURE","authors":"Cătălin Vatamanu","doi":"10.47433/tv.xcvn9-12.111","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The first prayer of Ben Sirach (Sir. 22, 27-23:6) stands out for being a request addressed to God to guide his thoughts, words and deeds. Sirach refers to God as a very familiar person, „Lord, father, and sovereign ruler of my life”. The understanding of the divine fatherhood in Sirach 23, 1.4 is enlightened by Sirach 4, 10; 51, 10, and by many other ancient Judaic sapiential texts. This terminology influenced the Liturgy of Early Church and the Fathers of the Church emphasized that the essential way to know God is the prayer.","PeriodicalId":370648,"journal":{"name":"Teologie și Viață","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Teologie și Viață","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.47433/tv.xcvn9-12.111","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The first prayer of Ben Sirach (Sir. 22, 27-23:6) stands out for being a request addressed to God to guide his thoughts, words and deeds. Sirach refers to God as a very familiar person, „Lord, father, and sovereign ruler of my life”. The understanding of the divine fatherhood in Sirach 23, 1.4 is enlightened by Sirach 4, 10; 51, 10, and by many other ancient Judaic sapiential texts. This terminology influenced the Liturgy of Early Church and the Fathers of the Church emphasized that the essential way to know God is the prayer.
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