Eric S. Christianson

Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries

Buch

Over the centuries, Ecclesiastes has influenced numerous aspects of life and thought. Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries assesses the diverse effects of the book on culture in religion, art, and social contexts.Ecclesiastes shaped the life of European abbeys of the middle ages. For Renaissance thinkers it provided a sceptical line of inquiry weighted with the disquieting authority of Scripture. It has inspired the imaginations of artists, musicians, and poets from the Renaissance to the present day. The influence of Ecclesiastes on literature has engaged authors as diverse as Bacon, Donne, Eliot, Hardy, Melville, and numerous Elizabethan poet… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-470-67491-8
EAN: 9780470674918
Produktnummer: 12475959
Verlag: Wiley
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 336 S.
Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.6 cm 430 g
Gewicht: 430

Über den Autor

Eric S. Christianson is an independent scholar living in the UK. He is author of A Time to Tell: Narrative Strategies in Ecclesiastes (1988) and co-editor of Cinéma Divinité: Religion, Theology and the Bible in Film (2005), The Lure of the Dark Side: Satan and Western Demonology in Popular Culture (2009) and Holy Terror: Understanding Religion and Violence in Popular Culture (2010).