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The Politics of Pessimism in Ecclesiastes

Author : Mark R. Sneed
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589836359
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Pessimism in Ecclesiastes written by Mark R. Sneed and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars attempt to resolve the problem of the book of Ecclesiastes’ heterodox character in one of two ways, either explaining away the book’s disturbing qualities or radicalizing and championing it as a precursor of modern existentialism. This volume offers an interpretation of Ecclesiastes that both acknowledges the unorthodox nature of Qoheleth’s words and accounts for its acceptance among the canonical books of the Hebrew Bible. It argues that, instead of being the most secular and modern of biblical books, Ecclesiastes is perhaps one of the most religious and primitive. Bringing a Weberian approach to Ecclesiastes, it represents a paradigm of the application of a social-science methodology.

Political Philosophy in the East an West

Author : Jaan Islam
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 162273307X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Political Philosophy in the East an West written by Jaan Islam and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 21st century, amid converging global political, social, and economic forces we are questioning the fundamental values we hold true, driven by an antagonism between different schools of political philosophy—between left- and right-wing politics. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of western political philosophy and underlines the core principles of each argument. It then argues that neither have we solved nor do we have any pathway to eventually solve, the question of right and wrong—we are essentially moral relativists in disguise. In order to break out of this cycle of uncertainty, the book proposes a solution of knowledge-based cognition: policy based on a concrete and proven understanding of an absolute and certain body of truths. This requires an analysis and blending of non-western political philosophical traditions, such as those espoused by Islam and Confucianism. This book gives an original critique of western political philosophy and is the first book to engage in a reconstruction of Islamic political philosophy.

Gerhard von Rad and the Study of Wisdom Literature

Author : Timothy J. Sandoval
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1628374500
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Gerhard von Rad and the Study of Wisdom Literature written by Timothy J. Sandoval and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerhard von Rad's study of biblical wisdom literature in Weisheit in Israel (1970) is widely regarded as one of the most important studies in the field of ancient Israelite wisdom literature. More than fifty years later, contributors to Gerhard von Rad and the Study of Wisdom Literature reevaluate the significance and shortcomings of the late scholar's work and engage new methods and directions for wisdom studies today. Contributors include George J. Brooke, Ariel Feldman, Edward L. Greenstein, Arthur Jan Keefer, Jennifer L. Koosed, Will Kynes, Christl M. Maier, Timothy J. Sandoval, Bernd U. Schipper, Mark Sneed, Hermann Spieckermann, Anne W. Stewart, Raymond C. Van Leeuwen, Stuart Weeks, and Benjamin G. Wright III. This collection of essays is essential reading not only for specialists in wisdom studies but also for scholars and advanced students of the Hebrew Bible in general.

A Classified Bibliography on Ecclesiastes

Author : David J. H. Beldman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567677346
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Book Synopsis A Classified Bibliography on Ecclesiastes by : David J. H. Beldman

Download or read book A Classified Bibliography on Ecclesiastes written by David J. H. Beldman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive listing of bibliographical references to writings on the book of Ecclesiastes, beginning from 1900. Rather than being presented in alphabetical order, these references are classified according to genre, chapter, subject and theme; among the myriad of classifications are biblical theology, commentaries, death and the afterlife, God/the divine, joy, language, sexuality, structure and wisdom. These classifications have been selected by specialists of Ecclesiastes, in order to guide scholars and researchers through the wealth of secondary material available and to prompt further research on the text. Through its collation of the incredible amount of bibliographical data on the book of Ecclesiastes, this collection will prove a vital resource for those working on Ecclesiastes for years to come.

Wisdom and Work

Author : J. Daryl Charles
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725265389
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Wisdom and Work written by J. Daryl Charles and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alluring yet frustrating. Charming yet maddening. Such is our reaction to the literary wonder called Ecclesiastes (Qoheleth), a "wisdom" book that has captured the fascination of readers everywhere for over two millennia with its mix of poetry and personal reflection, its probing of the human experience and its piercing assessment of human activity--especially human labor. Its "All is meaningless!" lament, which frames the document, is well known to all. But its message and the structure of the writer's argument remain disputed, even among professional scholars. Often overlooked, when not ignored, is the relationship between joy or contentment and the fear of God. And almost universally ignored in standard commentary is the role that satisfaction in our work plays in the life of the God-fearer. Against the mainstream of biblical scholarship, Wisdom and Work argues for the presence of a double theme in Ecclesiastes. It argues that, based on the writer's literary-rhetorical strategy, two diametrically opposed outlooks on life are being contrasted in Ecclesiastes, and that meaning and purpose, not "meaninglessness," are by divine design to be the norm - a norm that infuses the daily, the ordinary, and perhaps most significantly, our work.

Imagined Worlds and Constructed Differences in the Hebrew Bible

Author : Jeremiah W. Cataldo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567683508
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Imagined Worlds and Constructed Differences in the Hebrew Bible written by Jeremiah W. Cataldo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this volume is twofold: to introduce readers to the study of cultural memory and identity in relation to the Hebrew Bible, and to set up strategies for connecting studies of the historical contexts and literature of the Bible to parallel issues in the present day. The volume questions how we can better understand the divide between insider and outsider and the powerful impact of prejudice as a basis for preserving differences between "us" and "them"? In turn the contributors question how such frameworks shape a community's self-perception, its economics and politics. Guided by the general framework of Anderson's theory of nationalism and the outsider, such issues are explored in related ways throughout each of the contributions. Each contribution focuses on social, economic, or political issues that have significantly shaped or influenced dominant elements of cultural memory and the construction of identity in the biblical texts. Together the contributions present a larger proposal: the broad contours of memory and identity in the Bible are the products of a collective desire to reshape the social-political world.

Ecclesiastes

Author : John Goldingay
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725273160
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Ecclesiastes written by John Goldingay and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecclesiastes is the most surprising book in the Scriptures. It challenges its readers to reconsider what they think life is about and how far it is possible to understand God’s involvement in the world. This commentary seeks to help people enter the world of Ecclesiastes and see how it can increase their understanding of God and of themselves.

The Book of Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) and the Path to Joyous Living

Author : T. A. Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316300099
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) and the Path to Joyous Living by : T. A. Perry

Download or read book The Book of Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) and the Path to Joyous Living written by T. A. Perry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of Ecclesiastes using methods of philosophical exegesis, specifically those of the modern French philosophers Levinas and Blanchot. T. A. Perry opens up new horizons in the philosophical understanding of the Hebrew Bible, offering a series of meditations on its general spiritual outlook. Perry breaks down Ecclesiastes' motto 'all is vanity' and returns 'vanity' to its original concrete meaning of 'breath', the breath of life. This central and forgotten teaching of Ecclesiastes leads to new areas of breath research related both to environmentalism and breath control.

Ecclesiastes: An Earth Bible Commentary

Author : Marie Turner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567680126
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Ecclesiastes: An Earth Bible Commentary written by Marie Turner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qoheleth is one of the most challenging and intriguing of the biblical authors. Above all, he is attentive to life's realities, neither optimistic about the world nor unappreciative of its goodness and pleasures. In this volume, Turner examines the writings of Qoheleth in the book of Ecclesiastes and provides an ecological reading of the text that gives readers clear insights into how biblical wisdom literature can be used to respond to the challenges facing the environment in the present day, as well as advancing the field of ecological hermeneutics. In this commentary Turner looks at the concept of Qoheleth's 'eternal earth', moving through the chapters of Ecclesiastes with an ear attuned to the voice of the Earth as it struggles to be heard above the voice of the economy. Such a voice is not necessarily antagonistic to that of Earth, but neither is it neutral. The ecological reader knows that a prudent economy is necessary for living, but if it is given precedence at the expense of Earth, there will be no future, let alone 'eternity', for Earth. Eco-justice demands that contemporary readers should be mindful of future generations and heed Qoheleth's counsel to value the fruits of one's labour without greed, allowing ecological hermeneutics to provide insights into contemporary environmental issues. Illustrating how a biblical framework for environmentally responsible living may be generated, Turner's analysis is vital both to those studying Qoheleth and to those invested in the Bible and ecology.

Ecclesiastes 1-5

Author : Stuart Weeks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056769352X
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Ecclesiastes 1-5 written by Stuart Weeks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume in the ICC on Ecclesiastes 1-5 brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary and theological - to enable the scholar to have a complete knowledge and understanding of this Old Testament book. Stuart Weeks incorporates new evidence available in the field, surveys the wealth of secondary literature and provides an extensive introduction to Ecclesiastes as a whole.

Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life in the Ancient World

Author : Arthur Keefer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009118463
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life in the Ancient World by : Arthur Keefer

Download or read book Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life in the Ancient World written by Arthur Keefer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Arthur Keefer offers a timely assessment of Ecclesiastes and what it has to do with the meaning of life. Drawing on recent psychological research, he argues that this Hebrew Bible text associates the meaning of life with various types of suffering in life. Keefer here situates Ecclesiastes within its ancient intellectual world. Offering an analysis of contemporary texts from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, he demonstrates that concerns about meaning and suffering were widespread in the greater Mediterranean world. Ecclesiastes, however, handled the matters of suffering and meaning in an unprecedented way and to an unprecedented degree. With its rigorous commitment to precise definitions of life's meaning, Keefer's book provides a comprehensive set of definitions for “the meaning of life” as well as a conclusive point of reference for interpreters of Ecclesiastes. It also opens avenues for the interdisciplinary interpretation of texts from the ancient world.

T&T Clark Companion to the Doctrine of Sin

Author : Keith L. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567149641
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book T&T Clark Companion to the Doctrine of Sin written by Keith L. Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The T&T Clark Companion to the Doctrine of Sin provides a comprehensive treatment of the doctrine of sin. The Companion includes an examination of the biblical and rabbinic accounts of sin, and it provides accounts of sin and its effects offered by key theologians throughout Christian history. It also explores debates surrounding the implications of sin for various doctrines, including God, creation, anthropology, and salvation. The book is comprised of 30 major essays that provide an unparalleled examination of the key texts, figures, and debates relevant to the Christian tradition's discussion of the doctrine of sin. The Companion is unique in that every essay seeks to both appropriate and further stimulate the church's understanding of sin and its implications for the whole of the church's dogmatic tradition. The essays are divided into three sections: (1) Biblical Background; (2) Major Figures and Traditions; and (3) Dogmatic Concerns. The first set of essays explores the biblical and rabbinic accounts of sin to bring out the complexities of the biblical presentation and its implications. The second section discusses the role of the doctrine of sin in the theology of key theologians with a special attention to explaining how the doctrine contributes to an understanding of their overall theology. The final section explores key dogmatic questions and concerns related to the doctrine of sin (e.g. original sin, sin and the question of evil and providence, sin and the freedom of the will).

The Oxford Handbook of Wisdom and the Bible

Author : Will Kynes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190661267
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Wisdom and the Bible written by Will Kynes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume both reflects on the contested nature of the Wisdom Literature category and takes advantage of the opportunities it presents for reconsidering the concept of wisdom more independently from it. The first half explores wisdom as a concept, with essays on its relationship to skill, epistemology, virtue, theology, and order in the Hebrew Bible, its meaning in related cultures, from Egypt and Mesopotamia to Patristic and Rabbinic interpretation, and, finally, its continuing relevance the modern world, including in Islamic, Jewish, and Christian thought, and from feminist, environmental, and other contextual perspectives. The latter half considers "Wisdom Literature" as a category. Scholars address its relation to the Solomonic Collection, its social setting, literary genres, chronological development, and theology. Wisdom Literature's relation to other biblical literature (law, history, prophecy, apocalyptic, and the broad question of "Wisdom influence") is then discussed before separate chapters on the texts commonly associated with the category. Contributors take a variety of approaches to the current debates surrounding the viability and value of the Wisdom Literature category and its proper relationship to the concept of wisdom in the Hebrew Bible. Though the organization of the volume highlights the independence of wisdom as concept from "Wisdom Literature" as category, seeking to counter the lack of attention given to this question in the traditional approach, the inclusion of both topics together in the same volume reflects their continued interconnection. As such, this handbook both represents the current state of Wisdom scholarship and sets the stage for future developments"--

Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism

Author : Reuven Kiperwasser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110671549
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism written by Reuven Kiperwasser and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Studies and Texts in Scepticism contains monographs, translations, and collected essays exploring scepticism in its dual manifestation as a purely philosophical tradition and as a set of sceptical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the cultural field - especially in religions, perhaps most notably in Judaism. In such cultural contexts scepticism manifests as a critical attitude towards different dimensions and systems of secular or revealed knowledge and towards religious and political authorities. It is not merely an intellectual or theoretical worldview, but a critical form of life that expresses itself in such diverse phenomena as religion, literature, and society. Further book series of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies are Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and Religion and the Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advances Studies.

The Value of the World and of Oneself

Author : Mor Segev
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197634079
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Value of the World and of Oneself written by Mor Segev and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the longstanding debate between philosophical optimism and pessimism in the history of philosophy, focusing on Aristotle, Maimonides, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Camus. Philosophical optimists maintain that the world is optimally arranged and is accordingly valuable, and that the existence of human beings is preferable over their nonexistence. Philosophical pessimists, by contrast, hold that the world is in a woeful condition and ultimately valueless, and that human nonexistence would have been preferable over our existence. Schopenhauer criticizes the optimism he locates in the Hebrew Bible and in Spinoza for being unable to square the presumed perfection of the world and its parts, including human life, with the suffering and misfortunes observable in them, and for leading to egoism and thereby to cruelty. Nietzsche, in turn, criticizes Schopenhauer's overtly pessimistic view, inter alia, for furtively positing a perfect state for one to aspire to, thus being latently optimistic. Similarly, Camus charges Nietzsche, who announces his rejection of both optimism and pessimism, with deifying the world and oneself, thereby reverting to optimism. Interestingly, Aristotle countenances an optimistic theory, later adopted and developed by Maimonides, that is arguably capable of facing Schopenhauer's challenge. Aristotelian optimism accounts for the perfection of the world in terms of a hierarchy of value between its parts, with human beings ranked relatively low, and recommends an attitude congruent with that ranking"--

Bridging the Divide between Bible and Practical Theology

Author : Denise Dombkowski Hopkins
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527524698
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Bridging the Divide between Bible and Practical Theology written by Denise Dombkowski Hopkins and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contributes to closing the unfortunate divide that still exists today between the so-called ‘practical’ and ‘classical’ disciplines in seminary curricula. It builds a bridge across a chasm that should not exist. The chapters reflect ‘working on the bridge’ through a collegial model of sustained conversation out of the contributors’ different disciplines within Bible and Practical Theology. The authors in this volume desire to break out of academic silos that too often lead to fragmented student learning and disjointed ministry practices, in the hope that the imaginations of students, scholars, and ministers may be stimulated in the service of holistic ministry. The book is divided into two sections, I: Theoretical Frameworks, in which the authors invite the reader to look more broadly at issues of method, context, geography, and culture as biblical texts and practical theology are brought into dialog, and II: Reading Biblical Texts, which explores biblical books or texts while wearing the lenses of practical theology to mine the intersections and complexities of the encounter across disciplines. Whether singly or jointly authored, these essays model a dynamic, interactive reading of human situations and biblical texts in order to reveal their multivalent complexities.

The Moody Handbook of Messianic Prophecy

Author : Michael Rydelnik
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0802485227
Total Pages : 1475 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Moody Handbook of Messianic Prophecy written by Michael Rydelnik and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 1475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate, all-in-one resource on what the Old Testament says about Jesus As Jesus walked the Emmaeus road, he showed his companions how the whole of Scripture foretold his coming. Yet so often today we’re not quite sure how to talk about Jesus in the Old Testament. How do you know what applies to Jesus? And how do you interpret some of the strange prophetic language? Get answers and clarity in this authoritative and reliable guide to messianic prophecy from some of the world’s foremost evangelical Old Testament scholars. In this in-depth, user-friendly one volume resource you get: -essays from scholars on the big ideas and major themes surrounding Messianic prophecy -A clear and careful commentary on every passage in the Old Testament considered Messianic -Insights into the original Hebrew and helpful analysis of theological implications Watch the Scriptures come into full color as you see new meaning in familiar passages and further appreciate God’s masterful handiwork in preparing the way for Jesus, the long-awaited Messiah.