Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) write by Lisa M. Wolfe. This book was released on 2020-05-28. Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2021 Catholic Media Association Award third place award in academic studies Qoheleth, also called Ecclesiastes, has been bad news for women throughout history. In this commentary Lisa Wolfe offers intriguing new possibilities for feminist interpretation of the book's parts, including Qoheleth's most offensive passages, and as a whole. Throughout her interpretation, Wolfe explores multiple connections between this book and women of all times, from investigating how the verbs in the time poem in 3:1-8 may relate to biblical and contemporary women alike, to noting that if 11:1 indicates ancient beer making it thus reveals the women who made the beer itself. In the end, Wolfe argues that, by struggling with the perplexing text of Qoheleth, we may discover fruitful, against-the-grain reading strategies for our own time.
Ecclesiastes, Or, The Preacher
Ecclesiastes, Or, The Preacher - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecclesiastes, Or, The Preacher write by . This book was released on 1998. Ecclesiastes, Or, The Preacher available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Royal Autobiography in the Book of Qoheleth
Royal Autobiography in the Book of Qoheleth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Royal Autobiography in the Book of Qoheleth write by Y. V. Koh. This book was released on 2012-02-14. Royal Autobiography in the Book of Qoheleth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the literary genre(s) to which the book of Qoheleth belongs and on which it is modelled. It suggests that Qoheleth is best described as a royal autobiography based on the arguments of specific literary features of style and content, resemblance to various kinds of royal autobiographical narrative from the ancient Near East, and the existence, despite first impressions, of a coherent worldview. The analyses in this book cover various aspects from textual criticism, through aspects of vocabulary and style, to the interpretation of particular passages and the problem of making sense of the book as a whole.
Qoheleth
Qoheleth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Qoheleth write by Norbert Lohfink. This book was released on . Qoheleth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new addition to the successful Continental Commentary series is a significant and fresh treatment of Qoheleth (or Ecclesiastes). A famed professor presents a startlingly new translation of this often perplexing book of the Old Testament. Lohfink also argues for a rather different interpretation of the book than one finds elsewhere. Rather than reading the book's perspective as depressing, lost, or cynical, he highlights the elements of joy and balance. The volume includes introduction, new translation, commentary, parallel passages, bibliography, and indexes.
Qoheleth
Qoheleth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Qoheleth write by James L. Crenshaw. This book was released on 2013-08-31. Qoheleth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “In this substantive yet accessible volume, Crenshaw brings to life the Bible’s strangest sage . . . A superb introduction for students and scholars alike.” —William P. Brown, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary Rarely does a biblical book evoke admiration from a Nobel laureate in literature, a newspaper columnist, a prize-winning poet, and a popular songwriter. Ecclesiastes has done that, and for good reason. Its author, who called himself Qoheleth, stared death in the face and judged all human endeavors to be futile. For Qoheleth observation is the only avenue to understanding; an arbitrarily wrathful and benevolent deity created and rules over the world; and death is unpredictable, absolute, and final. His message is simple: seize the moment, for death awaits. James L. Crenshaw begins by examining the essential mysteries of the book of Ecclesiastes: the speaker’s identity, his emphasis on hidden or contradictory truths, and his argument of the insubstantiality of most things and the ultimate futility of all efforts. Moving from the ancient to the contemporary, Crenshaw again analyzes Qoheleth’s observations about the human condition, this time testing if they can stand up against rational inquiry today. In exploring Qoheleth’s identity, the foundations of his outlook, and his recommendations, Crenshaw engages modern readers in a conversation about one of the most disagreed upon biblical books. In Qoheleth, Crenshaw draws on related literature from the ancient Near East and traces the impact of Qoheleth in both Christian and Jewish traditions, summarizing a lifetime of scholarship on the book of Ecclesiastes. While exploring Ecclesiastes and its enigmatic author, Crenshaw engages scholars and modern interpreters in genuine debate over the lasting relevance of Qoheleth’s teachings and the place of Ecclesiastes in the biblical canon.
