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Sirach André Villeneuve CATHOLIC COMMENTARY ON SACRED SCRIPTURE Mary Healy, Mark Giszczak, and Peter S. Williamson, series editors The New Testament volumes in the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture (CCSS) series have been widely acclaimed. The series recently expanded to include readable yet substantive Old Testament commentaries that integrate the best of contemporary biblical scholarship with the traditional understanding of the Old Testament books as prophesying and prefiguring Christ. In Sirach , André Villeneuve makes a lesser-known deuterocanonical book accessible to readers. Drawing connections between Sirach, ancient Jewish and Christian commentaries, the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church , Vil- leneuve demonstrates that Sirach continues to speak to every age. This commentary, like each in the series, is designed for preaching, teaching, and applying Scripture to Christian life today. It includes quotations from Church documents, Church Fathers, and saints and is packed with features that make it particularly useful to those doing ministry in Catholic parishes. “This commentary on Sirach is a gift to the Church, drawing from the best scholarship but communicating its enduring value to contemporary disciples in understandable language. Villeneuve shows in very helpful ways how the enduring wisdom of Sirach is relevant for believers today. An impressive work indeed.” —Ralph Martin, STD, Sacred Heart Major Seminary “More than certainly brilliant biblical scholarship, this book is also beautiful and accessible. Reading it felt more like worship than study.” —Barbara Nicolosi, columnist, National Catholic Register
MAY 2025 • 400 pp. • paper • $26.99 • 9781540965899
André Villeneuve (PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is associate professor of Old Testament and biblical languages at Sacred Heart Major Seminary. He received his Licentiate in Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Commission in Rome. He is the author of Divine Marriage from Eden to the End of Days and the director of Catholics for Israel.
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