Qoheleth: A Continental CommentaryThis new addition to the successful Continental Commentary series is a significant and fresh treatment of Qoheleth (or Ecclesiastes). A famed professor presents a startlingly new translation of this often perplexing book of the Old Testament. Lohfink also argues for a rather different interpretation of the book than one finds elsewhere. Rather than reading the book's perspective as depressing, lost, or cynical, he highlights the elements of joy and balance. The volume includes introduction, new translation, commentary, parallel passages, bibliography, and indexes. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
History of Interpretation | 3 |
Era and Circumstances of Writing | 4 |
A Model of Enculturation | 6 |
Structure | 7 |
The Israelite Content | 8 |
Authorship | 9 |
The Book and the Canon | 11 |
Anthropology | 43 |
Social Critique I | 63 |
Religious Critique | 74 |
Social Critique II | 78 |
Deconstruction | 89 |
Ethic | 114 |
Epilogue | 142 |
Select Bibliography | 145 |
Literary Genre | 13 |
Qoheleths Philosophy | 14 |
The Theological Challenge of Qoheleth | 15 |
Translation | 19 |
Title and Prologue | 35 |
Cosmology | 39 |
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