03379nam 2200613Ia 450 991045384260332120200520144314.01-281-84177-397866118417750-567-64454-5(CKB)1000000000542372(EBL)436880(OCoLC)277006457(SSID)ssj0000266461(PQKBManifestationID)12049976(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000266461(PQKBWorkID)10304290(PQKB)10307923(MiAaPQ)EBC436880(Au-PeEL)EBL436880(CaPaEBR)ebr10250569(CaONFJC)MIL184177(OCoLC)893334512(EXLCZ)99100000000054237220010814d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVain rhetoric[electronic resource] private insight and public debate in Ecclesiastes /Gary D. SalyerSheffield, England Sheffield Academic Pressc20011 online resource (449 p.)Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;327Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Graduate Theological Union, 1997.1-84127-181-0 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 PROLEGOMENA: TOWARD A THEORY OF READING SCRIPTURAL TEXTS; Chapter 2 READING ECCLESIASTES AS A FIRST-PERSON SCRIPTURAL TEXT; Chapter 3 AMBIGUITIES, RIDDLES AND PUZZLES: AN OVERVIEW OF THE LINGUISTIC AND STRUCTURAL READER PROBLEMS IN THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES; Chapter 4 THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL SPIRAL: THE IRONIC USE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE KNOWLEDGE IN THE NARRATIVE PRESENTATION OF QOHELETH; Chapter 5 ROBUST RETICENCE AND THE RHETORIC OF THE SELF: READER RELATIONSHIPS AND THE USE OF FIRST-PERSON DISCOURSE IN ECCLESIASTES 1.1-6.9Chapter 6 A RHETORIC OF SUBVERSIVE SUBTLETY: THE EFFECT OF QOHELETH'S FIRST-PERSON DISCOURSE ON READER RELATIONSHIPS IN ECCLESIASTES 6.10-12.14Chapter 7 VAIN RHETORIC: SOME CONCLUSIONS; Appendix: WISDOM REFLECTIONS (PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE) IN THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Modern AuthorsThe Book of Ecclesiastes, like many ancient and modern first-person discourses, generates ambivalent responses in its readers. The book's rhetorical strategy produces both acceptance of, and suspicion towards, the major positions argued by the author. 'Vain rhetoric' aptly describes the persuasive and dissuasive properties of the narrator's peculiar characterization. It also describes how the Book of Ecclesiates, with its abundant use of rhetorical questions, constant gapping techniques, and other strategies from the arsenal of ambiguity, is a stunning testimony to the power of the various strJournal for the study of the Old Testament.Supplement series ;327.Hebrew languageStyleElectronic books.Hebrew languageStyle.223223.806Salyer Gary D893388MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453842603321Vain rhetoric1995777UNINA