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The book of Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) and the path to joyous living /
This is the first full-length study of Ecclesiastes using methods of philosophical exegesis.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; List of credits; Part One Human Hebel ("Vanity"): Sins of Collection; 1 "I Qohelet Was King" (1:12): The Collector Theme (1:12-2:26); Autobiography and the Confessional Perspective; Sins of Collection: The Theme of King Qohelet; Wisdom: A Collectible or a What?; "I Qohelet Was King" (1:12): Aging and Vulnerability; 2 Fool's Toil (1:2-3); 3 Excess and Its Passions (1:8-11); The Vocabulary of Excess; The Passions; Quietism Then?; 4 A Practical Guide for Living Wisely.
- Setting Natural Limits: Cycles Organ and Self-Control: Eyes, Hands, Feet; What Is within the Range of Vision; The Near at Hand; Feet; Concepts of Time: The Present, Dailiness; Attitudes, Expectations, the Joy of Contentment; Part Two Universal Hebel ("Wind"): Transience, Time, and Indifference; 5 Cosmic Patterns of Return and Renewal; The Opening Cosmology (1:4-7); Wechseldauer: The Stable Structures of Transience; 6 The Catalog of Human Times (3:1-8); A Merismic Universe; Humans "Under the Sun": The Dialectic; Negatives; An Indifferent Universe and Its Song of Mere Being.
- Part Three The Hebel of "Dis-aster": Totalities, Transcendence, and Crossover Concepts7 Totalities and the Outside (Dehors); Totalities and Their Limitations; The Outside (Dehors) and the Neuter or Neutral; 8 Living "Under the Sun" and with Transience; 9 Breath of Breaths: Qohelet's Motto and Theme and Refrain; The Effects of Poetic Language; Toward the Peshat or Concrete Literal Meaning of Hebel: Is Breath "Vanity"?; The Dynamism and Transcendence of Metaphor: Cosmology; The Peshat as Metaphor: The Breath of Life; The All as the Hebel of Hebels: God as the Metaphor of Metaphors.
- Part Four The Hebel of Words10 Nothing Remains (1:3)? Nothing New (1:9; 12:8-12)?; The Great Inclusio (1:2-3; 12:8-9); Im-mortal Remains: The Great Void or the Nothing That Is; Mortal Remains: Writing Fragments, Collecting Students, Righting Proverbs (12:9-11); Qohelet as a Foundational Myth; Part Five Theological Conclusions; 11 Qohelet's Very Final Words; 12 Qohelet's Very First Words; 13 The "All" of Humans; Conclusions; Qohelet the Poet and the Practice of Language; Discussion; Debate; Judgment and Evaluation (e.g., "Better-Than" Statements); Skepticism and Piety.
- Back to Our Place: This World of Death and Rebirth : Primary or Transitional Experiences under the Sun; Living with and through Transience: Simple Joys, Simply Joy; Index.