Time in the book of Ecclesiastes
Bundvad, Mette,1982-Author
This text is the only detailed exploration of the theme of time in Ecclesiastes. It argues that time is not only a central theme in Ecclesiastes, but one which provides the book with much of its thematic coherence. Analysing a number of particularly important passages in detail, this book argues that Ecclesiastes depicts the temporal reality as extremely problematic for human attempts to live meaningfully. This is especially due to the tension which the book's narrator perceives between the temporal reality of the world and the human experience of time.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text is the only detailed exploration of the theme of time in Ecclesiastes. It argues that time is not only a central theme in Ecclesiastes, but one which provides the book with much of its thematic coherence. Analysing a number of particularly important passages in detail, this book argues that Ecclesiastes depicts the temporal reality as extremely problematic for human attempts to live meaningfully. This is especially due to the tension which the book's narrator perceives between the temporal reality of the world and the human experience of time.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 9, 2015).
Structure and composition : can the book of Qohelet be read? -- Towards a biblical conception of time -- World time and human time in the framing poems -- The present in the book of Quohelet -- Connecting present to past and future -- Storytelling as a means of protest.
Bible.
Judaism
Religion
Philosophy & Religion