Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually: 587 (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0567667901 ISBN 13: 9780567667908

Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016

Synopsis

This volume continues the study of intertextuality in the 'Wisdom Literature' initiated in Reading Job Intertextually (Dell and Kynes, T&T Clark, 2012). Like that book, Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually provides the first comprehensive treatment of intertextuality in this wisdom text. Articles address intertextual resonances between Ecclesiastes and texts across the Hebrew canon, along with texts throughout history, from Greek classical literature to the New Testament, Jewish and Christian interpretation, and existential and Modern philosophy.

As a multi-authored volume that gathers together scholars with expertise on this diverse array of texts, this collection provides exegetical insight that exceeds any similar attempt by a single author. The contributors have been encouraged to pursue the intertextual approach that best suits their topic, thereby offering readers a valuable collection of intertextual case studies addressing a single text.

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About the Author

Will Kynes lectures in Old Testament at St Peter's College, Oxford, UK.

Katharine Dell is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University, UK and Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Oxford, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567667901
• ISBN 13: 9780567667908
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Katharine Dell