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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789792803321

Autore

Whybray R. N (Roger Norman)

Titolo

Ecclesiastes / / R. N. Whybray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [1997]

©1997

ISBN

1-283-19403-1

9786613194039

0-567-19394-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (89 p.)

Collana

Old Testament Guides

Disciplina

223.8077

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Select List of Commentaries; 1. Introduction; 2. The Author and his Times; 3. Language, Style and Structure; 4. Place in the History of Thought; 5. Qoheleth's Characteristic Ideas; Index of Biblical References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Ecclesiastes is at once a strange book and a modern one, at once enigmatic and curiously familiar. Here we find a man detached from the world and yet intensely aware of it, setting down in writing his thoughts about human life. Yet from the very first his readers have been unable to agree about his basic attitude to life. Whybray sorts through the options by asking questions regarding the author, his times, his language and his ideas.