Ecclesiastes in social-science perspective
Subtitle: the politics of pessimism
By: by Mark Ronnie Sneed
Series: Society of Biblical Literature ancient Israel and its literature -- v. 12
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004219762
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Pessimism; Bible; Biblical Sociology; Social scientific criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Qohelet's heterodox character : non-social science approaches; title: Explaining Qohelet's heterodox character : social science approaches; title: Qohelet's socio-historical context; title: Qohelet and his audience's social location; title: Synchronic (literary) analysis of the book of Qohelet; title: Qohelet, the problem of evil, and cognitive dissonance; title: Qohelet's irrational response to the (over-)rationalization of traditional; title: The positive power of Qohelet's pessimism; title: The sociology of the book of Qohelet's canonicity; title: Conclusion.