TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christianson, Eric S
AU  - Christianson,Eric S
TI  - Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries
SN  - 9780631225294
U1  - BC02 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Blackwell Publishing
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Testimonia  The Vagaries of Interpreting Ecclesiastes  Charting a Harsh Terrain  Qoheleth the Philosopher  Wrought by Melancholy  Preacher of Joy  True to Life  Qoheleth and Christianity Qoheleth and Justice  Introduction	17  1	A History of Reception Histories	19  2	Reading Strategies and Lines of Influence	22  Pre-Modern Reading: -1500	23  Early Modern Reading: 1500-1800	40    A.	Renaissance and Reform	40  B.	Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Verse	51  C.	On the Way to Modernity	57  Modern Reading: 1800-	65  A.	Literature	  65  B.	Visual Art, Music and Film	75  C.	Comparative Studies	84  Ecclesiastes 1	87  The Life and Death of Solomon the Author: 1:1 et passim	89  A.	Alive and Well in Pre-Modernity (-1500)	89  B.	Embattled in Early Modernity (1500-1800)	95  C.	Dead in Modernity - Solomon`s Ghost (1800-)	96  Vanitas Vanitatum: 1:2 et passim 98  A.	Despising the World through Vanitas (-1500)	100  B.	Renaissance Vanitas: Despising Jerome and Suspecting the Sciences (1500-1800)	106  C.	Literary Vanitas: New Points of Reference (1800-)	125  D.	The Breadth of Vanitas	140  The Overture Played Out: 1:3-18	142  Ecclesiastes 2	156  Wrestling with the Test of Pleasure: 2:1-10	157  Understanding Wisdom, Folly and God`s Gifts: 2:11-24	161  Ecclesiastes 3:1-8	164  The Totality of Times	165  Ecclesiastes 3:9-6:12	174  On Fate, Knowledge and Anthropology: 3:9-22	175  On Oppression and the Value of Companionship: 4:1-12	180  On Conducting Oneself in the House of God: 5:1-8	183  On the Possibility of Profit and Relief from hebe/: 5:10-6:12	184  Ecclesiastes 7-8	188  The Curious Values of Wisdom: 7:1-12	189  The Incongruity of Experience and the Inaccessibility of Wisdom: 7:13-29	192  About Wisdom, Power and Authority: 8:1-17	201  Ecclesiastes 9:1-12	206  The Wisdom of Death and Life	207  Ecclesiastes 9:13-11:10	216  Wise Conduct in the Light of Uncertainty: 9:13-11:6	217  The Final Call to Joy: 11:7-10	221  Ecclesiastes 12:1-7	225  The Rule of Allegory	227  Beyond Allegory	232  Ecclesiastes 12:8-14	247  The Final Word	249  A Hermeneutical Postscript	256  Understanding the Pervasive Appeal of Qoheleth	256  The Exegetical `Fidelity` of Ecclesiastes` Reception History	259  How Might This Reception History Inform the	Discipline? 261
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