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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The book of Ecclesiastes is the result of a long process ofinterpretation; it is a booklet of wisdom that has gone through twoimportant and successive remodelings. However, at each stage of itstransmission the works global structure can be studied. The studysfirst part expounds the inital booklet which is the work of the masterof a school of wisdom during the Persian era (5th century B.C.), calledQoheleth the Wise.A first rereading modifies the book in a fundamental way: it sets itspessimistic key of interpretation at the very beginning in 1, 2, andcontinues in that manner which can be explained by the chaotic situationof the first decades of the Hellenistic period.The second rereading proposes the following solution for the tensionthus brought about between the praise of joy and the profound pessimism:It attributes any negative aspects exclusively to the world of humanityand places all hopes in God and eternity. This corresponds withtheological tendencies expressed in the latter part of the 3rd centuryB.C. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9783727812552
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # V9783727812552
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # V9783727812552