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Interpreting Ecclesiastes: Readers Old and New: Readers Old and New
Ort / Verlag
Penn State University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Readers of texts come from all generations, from different
contexts and with different agendas. This book gives a sample of
what both ancient and contemporary readers have brought to the book
of Ecclesiastes in the quest for illumination of the text and for
their own enlightenment, often furnishing their own agenda. Debates
over meaning are formed, shaped, and illuminated by the
interpreters themselves. Part One looks at ancient interpreters and
at their methods of approaching the text. Jewish and Christian
interpreters alike sought to find meaning amongst some of the key
puzzles of the book-why does the author call himself "the son of
David" and appear to be Solomon when his pen name also seems to be
Qoheleth? Why the contradictions in content? How did such an
unorthodox book come to be canonized? How did the dualistic
contemptus mundi interpretation of the vanity theme perpetuated by
Jerome and others come to hold the field for so long? And how did
Luther and the reformers seek to rectify that approach? These
questions and others are addressed in this book, looking through
the lens of past interpretation. Part Two acknowledges our
increasing self-awareness of the importance of method in
approaching biblical texts and turns to a sample of modern
interpretations from familiar reading groups such as the ecologist,
the animal theologian, the liberationist, the post-colonialist, and
the feminist. It will be seen that different modern approaches
often enlighten the interpretation of specific verses within
Ecclesiastes and hence that no one method is a wholesale "solution"
to interpretive concerns.