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" Ecclesiastes through the centuries / "
Eric S. Christianson.
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658872
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Christianson, Eric S.
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Ecclesiastes through the centuries /\ Eric S. Christianson.
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Malden, MA ;Oxford :: Blackwell Pub.,, 2007.
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Blackwell Bible commentaries
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xvi, 314 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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0631225293 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 9780631225294 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 9780470674918 (pbk.)
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: 0470674911 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-295) and indexes.
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Series editors' preface -- Preface -- Testimonia -- The vagaries of interpreting Ecclesiastes -- Charting a hars terrain -- Qoheleth the Philosopher -- Wrought by melancholy -- Preacher of joy -- True to life -- Qoheleth and Christianity -- Qoheleth and justice -- Introduction -- 1 A history of reception histories -- 2 Reading strategies and lines of Influence -- Pre-modern reading: -1500 -- Early modern reading: 1500-1800 -- A. Renaissance and reform -- B. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century verse -- C. On the way to modernity -- Modern reading: 1800- -- A. Literature -- B. Visual art, music and film -- C. Comparative studies -- Ecclesiastes 1 -- The life and death of Solomon the author: 1:1 et passim -- A. Alive and well in pre-modernity ( -1500) -- B. Embattled in early modernity (1500-1800) -- C. Dead in modernity -- Solomon's ghost (1800- ) -- Vanitas vanitatum: 1:2 et passim -- A. Despising the world through Vanitas ( -1500) -- B. Renaissance Vanitas: despising Jerome and suspecting the sciences (1500-1800) -- C. Literary Vanitas: new points of reference (1800- ) -- D. The breadth of Vanitas -- The overture played out: 1:3-18 -- Ecclesiastes 2 -- Wrestling with the test of pleasure: 2:1-10 -- Understanding wisdom, folly and God's gifts: 2:11-24 -- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 -- The totality of times -- Ecclesiastes 3:9-6:12 -- On fate, knowledge and anthropology: 3:9-22 -- On oppression and the value of companionship: 4:1-12 -- On conducting oneself in the house of God: 5:1-8 -- On the possibility of profit and relief from hebel: 5:10-6:12 -- Ecclesiastes 7-8 -- The curious values of wisdom: 7:1-12 -- The incongruity of experience and the inaccessibility of wisdom: 7:13-29 -- About wisdom, power and authority: 8:1-17 -- Ecclesiastes 9:1-12: The wisdom of death and life -- Ecclesiastes 9:13-11:10: Wise conduct in the light of uncertainty: 9:13-11:6 -- The final call to joy: 11:7-10 -- Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 -- The rule of allegory: 12:1-7 -- Beyond allegory: 12:1-7 -- Ecclesiastes 12:8-14: The final word -- A hermeneutical postscript -- Understanding the pervasive appeal of Qoheleth -- The exegetical 'fidelity' of Ecclesiastes' reception history -- How might this reception history inform the discipline? -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- 1. Pre-1500 -- 2. 1500-1800 -- 3. Post-1800 -- Reception histories of Ecclesiastes -- 1. Jewish and Christian -- 2. Surveys of academic approaches -- 3. Literature -- Specialist comparative studies -- Ecclesiastes general secondary sources -- Other secondary sources -- Appendix -- The quotable Qoheleth: Ecclesiastes in popular discourse.
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Over the centuries, Ecclesiastes has influenced a number of diverse areas of life and thought. Ecclesiastes through the centuries assesses the fascinating effects of the book on the culture of the various times in religion, art, and social thought. This book explores a fascinating range of Jewish and Christian readings. It features engaging and unusual examples from art, music, literature and history: from Thackeray and Orwell, to Salvador Dali's Illustrated Bible, to the inflammatory exposition of Ecclesiastes at the funeral of Queen Mary. This is the third Old Testament volume published in the innovative Blackwell Bible commentaries series.
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Bible., Ecclesiastes
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