Ecclesiastes, Or, The Preacher
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1998 |
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ISBN | : 9781875847860 |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1998 |
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ISBN | : 9781875847860 |
Author | : Various Authors, |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 6637 |
Release | : 2008-09-02 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 0310294142 |
The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
Author | : Robert Gordis |
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Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : Robert Gordis |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Religion |
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The Biblical book of Koheleth (Ecclesiastes), which originated in the last centuries before the Christian era, is a basically heterodox if not an altogether heretical work. Above all, it is a profoundly human book. The unknown author has lost the faith of the Prophets in the victory of justice in the world and the belief that man can attain an understanding of the meaning of life. God does indeed exist, but his relation to the world and man is open to question. The gentle skeptic, sure only of his innate desire for happiness, calls upon man to accept the enjoyment that this transitory life affords. Ecclesiastes receives a thoroughgoing literary, philosophical and stylistic analysis, against the background of both Hebrew and Near Eastern Wisdom literature and in relation to Egyptian and Greek thought. The vocabulary and phraseology of the highly personal, whimsical, unconventional work leads the author to an appreciation of the character of the sophisticated anonymous writer: It is the style that is fundamental to the charm and perennial appeal of Koheleth. The scholarly reader will find, in addition, a new translation of, and a detailed commentary on, the work.
Author | : Roger Zelazny |
Publisher | : Harvill Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 1969 |
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ISBN | : 9780586029206 |
Author | : Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Bishops' Committee on the Permanent Diaconate |
Publisher | : USCCB Publishing |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781574553680 |
The national directory addresses the dimensions and perspectives in the formation of deacons and the model standards for the formation, ministry, and life of deacons in the United States. It is intended as a guideline for formation, ministry, and life of permanent deacons and a directive to be utilized when preparing or updating a diaconate program in formulating policies for the ministry and life of deacons. This volume also includes Basic Standards for Readiness for the formation of permanent deacons in the United States, from the bishops' Committee on the Diaconate, and the committee document Visit of Consultation Teams to Diocesan Permanent Diaconate Formation Programs.
Author | : Michael V. Fox |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1608994961 |
Pervaded as it is with pessimism, paradox, and a multitude of contradictions, Ecclesiastes has long been one of the most difficult books of the Bible to understand. As this study demonstrates, however, it is precisely these contradictions that make Ecclesiastes so meaningful and so powerfully relevant to life in the world. By looking carefully at the language and thought of Ecclesiastes, as well as at its uses of contradictions in probing the meaning of life, Fox confronts the problems that have confounded interpretation of this biblical book. He shows that by using contradiction to tear down holistic claims of meaning and purpose in the world and rebuilding meaning in a local, restricted sense instead, the author of Ecclesiastes shapes a bold, honest-and ultimately uplifting-vision of life. Based on solid scholarly insight yet readable by all, Fox's work provides some of the best commentary available on this challenging section of Scripture.
Author | : John Franklin Genung |
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Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : Martin A. Shields |
Publisher | : Eisenbrauns |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1575061023 |
Through the ages, the book of Ecclesiastes (Qoheleth) has elicited a wide variety of interpretations. Its status as wisdom literature is secure, but its meaning for the religion of the Hebrew Bible and its heirs has been a matter of much debate. The debate has swung from claiming orthodoxy for the book to arguing that the message intended by its author is heterodox, in its entirety. There are a number of passages in the book that present difficulties for any comprehensive approach to the work. Martin Shields here fully acknowledges the heterodox nature of Qoheleth's words but offers an orthodox reading of the book as a whole through the eyes of the author of the epilogue. After a survey of attitudes regarding wisdom in the Hebrew Bible itself, which serves as an orientation to the monograph as a whole, Shields provides a detailed study of the epilogue (Qoh 12:9-14), which he believes is the key to the reading of the remainder of the book. He then addresses various problematic texts in the book in light of this perspective, arguing that the book could originally have functioned as a warning to students against joining a wisdom movement that existed at the time of the book's composition. Qoheleth is presented as a true adherent of this movement, and the divergence of his words from the theism presented in the rest of the Hebrew Bible becomes the basis of the epilogue's critique. Finally, Shields proposes a historical context in which just this scenario may have arisen, showing that the desire of the writer of the epilogue is to correct a wayward wisdom tradition.
Author | : Theodore Anthony Perry |
Publisher | : Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Kohelet is known in world literature as the source of two messages. On the one hand, it is a handbook of world-weariness and pessimism: "All is vanity." On the other, it asserts that all things have their right time, "a time to live, and a time to die." But these two messages are contradictory, for if all is vain, then there is no need to reflect on the proper time for planting and dancing and laughing.