Ecclesiastes (Interpretation, a Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching)
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press; John Knox Press
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780804231466
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Books of the Old Testament; Religion - Biblical Studies; Ecclesiastes; Old Testament Commentary; Religion; O.T; Biblical Studies - Old Testament; Biblical Studies - Topical; Bible - Study - Old Testament; Biblical Commentary - Old Testament; Bible; Bible.; Commentaries; O.T.
First sentence: Once upon a time in a distant land there lived a king who achieved unsurpassed wisdom.
Description: "Deemed by some the strangest book in the canon, Ecclesiastes is an unusual blend of autobiographical references, theological reflections, philosophical musings, and proverbial instructions, all probing the seeming pointlessness of human striving." "Explaining the text as it engages our own culture's era of questioning and search for self-fulfillment, William P. Brown's commentary succeeds in discerning redemptive truth amid the ambiguity and despair of Ecclesiastes' anguished discourse."--Jacket.