Reading Ecclesiastes from Asia and Pasifika / / edited by Jione Havea and Peter H. W. Lau

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910586701203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Atlanta, GA : , : SBL Press, , [2020]
• ISBN: 9780884144496; 0884144496; 9781628372793; 1628372796
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 206 pages)
• Collana: International voices in biblical studies ; ; Number 10
• Disciplina: 223/.806
• Soggetti: Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Asia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book contains interpretations of Ecclesiastes by authors from Asia and Pasifika. Essays engage oral traditions, customs, and written texts not usually encountered in biblical scholarship. Topics of wisdom, gender, justice, vanity, bitterness, life, death, labor, exile, pain, and philosophy invite readers to reconsider their interpretations of this ancient text"--