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Qoheleth

Continental Commentaries
  • ISBN-13: 9780800696047
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: AUGSBURG BOOKS
  • By Norbert Lohfink, Edited by Sean McEvenue
  • Price: AUD $84.99
  • Stock: 1 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 20/04/2003
  • Format: Hardback (254.00mm X 178.00mm) 176 pages Weight: 420g
  • Categories: Religion & beliefs [HR]
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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.
Norbert Lohfink, S.J., before his recent retirement, was Professor of Old Testament at Sankt Georgen Seminary (Frankfurt, Germany). His published works in English include: Theology of the Pentateuch (Fortress Press, 1994), The Covenant Never Revoked (1991), Option for the Poor (1987), and Great Themes from the Old Testament (1982). Sean McEvenue is Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His publications include Interpretation and Bible: Essays on Truth in Literature (1994) and The Narrative Style of the Priestly Writer (1971).
Preface Translator's Note Abbreviations Introduction Survey of the Contents History of Interpretation Era and Circumstances of Writing A Model of Enculturation Linguistic Form Structure The Israelite Content Authorship The Book and the Canon Literary Genre Qoheleth's Philosophy Theological Challenge of Qoheleth Translation and Commentary 1:1-11 Title, Frame, Cosmology 1:12-3:15 Anthropology 3:16-4:16 Social critique I 4:17-5:6 Religious Critique 5:7-6:10 Social critique II 6:11-9:6 Deconstruction 9:7-12:14 Ethic Bibliography Index of Names and Subjects Index of Hebrew and Greek words
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