Eric S. Christianson

Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries

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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 po… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4051-7220-2
EAN: 9781405172202
Produktnummer: 13874225
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'018 KB

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).