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Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes): Wisdom Commentary

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wisdom Commentary - 24Publication details: Collegeville, Minnesota Liturgical Press 2020Description: 202p 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780814681237
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes).DDC classification:
  • BC01 23 R272
Contents:
Foreword: "Tell it on the mountain"--or, "And you shall tell your daughter [as well]" / Athalya Brenner-Idan -- Editor's introduction to Wisdom commentary: "She is a breath of the power of God" (Wis 7:25) / Barbara E. Reid, OP -- Learning Qoheleth's language (1:1-18) -- A test is pleasure hevel? (2:1-26) -- What time? (3:1-22) -- From hevel to carpe diem and much in-between (4:1-5:20 [heb 4:1-5:19]) -- Good, better, wise (6:1-7:14) -- On wisdom and women (or woman wisdom) (7:15-29) -- From wisdom to death (8:1-9:6) -- Carpe diem and related imperatives (9:7-18) -- Closing advice and epilogue (10:1-12:14) -- Afterword: Qoheleth as a model for feminist hermeneutics.
Summary: "This commentary on Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) provides a feminist interpretation of Scripture in serious, scholarly engagement with the whole text, not only those texts that explicitly mention women. It addresses not only issues of gender but also those of power, authority, ethnicity, racism, and classism"-- Provided by publisher.
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"A Michael Glazier Book."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Foreword: "Tell it on the mountain"--or, "And you shall tell your daughter [as well]" / Athalya Brenner-Idan -- Editor's introduction to Wisdom commentary: "She is a breath of the power of God" (Wis 7:25) / Barbara E. Reid, OP -- Learning Qoheleth's language (1:1-18) -- A test is pleasure hevel? (2:1-26) -- What time? (3:1-22) -- From hevel to carpe diem and much in-between (4:1-5:20 [heb 4:1-5:19]) -- Good, better, wise (6:1-7:14) -- On wisdom and women (or woman wisdom) (7:15-29) -- From wisdom to death (8:1-9:6) -- Carpe diem and related imperatives (9:7-18) -- Closing advice and epilogue (10:1-12:14) -- Afterword: Qoheleth as a model for feminist hermeneutics.

"This commentary on Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) provides a feminist interpretation of Scripture in serious, scholarly engagement with the whole text, not only those texts that explicitly mention women. It addresses not only issues of gender but also those of power, authority, ethnicity, racism, and classism"-- Provided by publisher.

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