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Ecclesiastes through the centuries / Eric S. Christianson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell Bible commentariesPublication details: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.Description: xix, 314 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0470674911 (pbk.)
  • 9780470674918 (pbk.)
  • 9780631225294 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 223.807 23
LOC classification:
  • BS1475.53 .C47 2012
Contents:
Testimonia. The vagaries of interpreting Ecclesiastes -- Charting a harsh terrain -- Qoheleth the Philosopher -- Wrought by melancholy -- Preacher of joy -- True to life -- Qoheleth and Christianity -- Qoheleth and justice -- Introduction. A history of reception histories -- 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 -- Beyond allegory -- 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? -- Appendix: The quotable Qoheleth: Ecclesiastes in popular discourse.
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Originally published: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-295) and indexes.

Testimonia. The vagaries of interpreting Ecclesiastes -- Charting a harsh terrain -- Qoheleth the Philosopher -- Wrought by melancholy -- Preacher of joy -- True to life -- Qoheleth and Christianity -- Qoheleth and justice -- Introduction. A history of reception histories -- 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 -- Beyond allegory -- 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? -- Appendix: The quotable Qoheleth: Ecclesiastes in popular discourse.