Michael V Fox

Time to Tear Down and a Time to Build Up

A Rereading of Ecclesiastes

Buch

Pervaded as it is with pessimism, paradox, and a multitude of contradictions, Ecclesiastes has long been one of the most difficult books of the Bible to understand. As this study demonstrates, however, it is precisely these contradictions that make Ecclesiastes so meaningful and so powerfully relevant to life in the world. By looking carefully at the language and thought of Ecclesiastes, as well as at its uses of contradictions in probing the meaning of life, Fox confronts the problems that have confounded interpretation of this biblical book. He shows that by using contradiction to tear down holistic claims of meaning and purpose in the worl… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-60899-496-0
EAN: 9781608994960
Produktnummer: 7436975
Verlag: Wipf and Stock
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 442 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.3 cm 636 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 636

Über den Autor

Michael V. Fox is the Weinstein-Bascom Professor in Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His other books include The Song of Songs and the Ancient Egyptian Love Songs and His Contradictions.