Royal Autobiography in the Book of Qoheleth by Y. V. Koh

By Y. V. Koh

This research is worried with the literary style to which the publication of Qoheleth belongs and on which it truly is modelled. It covers a variety of facets of literary research and the matter of constructing feel of the booklet as an entire. It means that Qoheleth is better defined as a royal autobiography according to the arguments of particular literary good points of fashion and content material, resemblance to numerous different types of royal autobiographical narrative from in other places within the historical close to East, and the life of a coherent worldview which the writer provides because the fruit of his lifelong observations of the area.

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Scholars soon took to the view that the contradictions were part of Qoheleth's peculiar literary technique and not the work of later redactors and that the "tensions" in the text reflected Qoheleth's examination and interaction with conventional wisdom. Earlier theories of Qoheleth being in debate with other parties were here revived in a modern version. Rather than being in debate with external associates, commentators began to view Qoheleth as being in debate with himself over the value and validity of traditional wisdom.

Gardens, parks, vineyards, and pools were common projects of pride for kings in ancient times, 100 often carried out for the sole purpose of self-aggrandizement. Qoheleth's manner of boasting in 2:4-11 bears a further similarity with the ancient Semitic royal language of boast. I shall examine these parallels further in Chapter 3. 101 Seow 102 has gone further in his attempt to match the building works and properties described in 96 ΠΠ0Θ in 2:1 and 2:10 forms an inclusio to mark the passage as another pericope.

1:1; 10:1; 25:1, cf. Hezekiah in Prov. 25:1). Furthermore, Solomon might also be seen as "the archetypal person who had gathered everything for himself but yet was subjected to the vicissitudes of life". 83 B. A Solomonic Experiment (1:13-18) This next literary unit might best be described as the blueprint of Qoheleth's narration in that here we have Qoheleth stating the purpose of his investigation and the object and means by which he will carry it out. The subsequent observations of Qoheleth are tied to this first declaration of his intent to embark upon a royal quest to test and examine wisdom.

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