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In Ecclesiastes the authorial voice of Qohelet presents an identity that has challenged readers for centuries. This book offers a reception history of the different ways readers have constructed Qohelet as an author.In Ecclesiastes the authorial voice of Qohelet presents an identity that has challenged readers for centuries. This book offers a reception history of the different ways readers have constructed Qohelet as an author. Previous reception histories of Ecclesiastes group readings into premodern and critical or separate Jewish from Christian readings. In deliberate contrast this analysis arranges readings thematically according to the interpretive potential inherent in the text a method of biblical reception history articulated by Brennan Breed. Doing so erases the artificial distinctions between socalled scholarly and confessional readings and highlights the fact that many modern academic readings of the authorship of Ecclesiastes travel in wellworn interpretive paths that long predate the rise of critical scholarship. Thus this book offers a reminder that while critical biblical scholarship is an essential part of the interpretive task academic readings are themselves indebted to the Bibles reception history and a part of it.In this lively and wellwritten book Bolin stands Qohelet scholarship on its head by analyzing interpretations of Ecclesiastes in particular mapping the varieties of portraits of its author Qohelet rather than simply offering one reading of the text. Bolin thus combines the work of scholars such as Jennifer Koosed who has explored the question of Qohelets identity and scholars such as Eric Christianson who has collected interpretations of Ecclesiastes that span millennia. Along the way Bolin interjects fascinating asides about such diverse topics as Greek mythology the origins of biblical scholarship and consumer culture. Brennan Breed
Data Publikacji: 2019-03-05
Wymiary: 234 mm 156 mm 226 gr