Time in the Book of Ecclesiastes
«[Bundvad] has done readers of Ecclesiastes a service in examining the concept of time in the Book of Ecclesiastes. Those interested in understanding this quite difficult book will be well served by Bundvad's scholarship.»
Russell L. Meek, Catholic Biblical Quarterly
Time in the Book of Ecclesiastes offers a detailed analysis of the theme of time in Ecclesiastes. The book of Ecclesiastes engages at length with this theme and presents a sophisticated exploration of humanity's temporal situation. Les mer
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human experience of time. Consequently, humanity's cognitive engagement with time becomes a particular focus in his exploration of life under the sun.
Time is not only a central theme in Ecclesiastes; it is also a theme which provides this difficult book with a degree of coherence and renders meaningful some of the passages which otherwise seem contradictory. Furthermore, the explicit exploration in Ecclesiastes of the theme of time provides an excellent entry-point into the broader discussion regarding the presence and character of temporal thinking in the Hebrew Bible more generally. Mirroring the interest in Ecclesiastes for both, Dr Mette
Bundvad discusses the biblical book's presentation of both the cosmic temporal structures and the framework of the human past, present and future. It offers close readings of a series of passages in which the theme of time is especially prominent, thus demonstrating how the discussion of time works
in Ecclesiastes and how it interacts with other of the book's key-themes.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198739708
- Utgivelsesår
- 2015
- Format
- 22 x 15 cm
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«[Bundvad] has done readers of Ecclesiastes a service in examining the concept of time in the Book of Ecclesiastes. Those interested in understanding this quite difficult book will be well served by Bundvad's scholarship.»
Russell L. Meek, Catholic Biblical Quarterly