The book of Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) and the path to joyous by Perry, Theodore Anthony

By Perry, Theodore Anthony

This is often the 1st full-length learn of Ecclesiastes utilizing equipment of philosophical exegesis, in particular these of the fashionable French philosophers Levinas and Blanchot. T. A. Perry opens up new horizons within the philosophical knowing of the Hebrew Bible, delivering a sequence of meditations on its basic religious outlook. Perry breaks down Ecclesiastes's motto "all is self-importance" and returns "vanity" to its unique concrete that means of "breath," the breath of lifestyles. This significant and forgotten educating of Ecclesiastes ends up in new parts of breath examine comparable either to environmentalism and breath keep an eye on

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See BT Sanh 103b. For a moving commentary, see Blanchot, L’Écriture du désastre, 133. 21 24 Human Hebel (“Vanity”) below) but also for successful possession. 23 The second problem is one of the nature of time, summarized in the astonishing appearance in Biblical Hebrew of the concept of the present: [Even in the present] what does a person have? ” In the previous example success was achieved in the present but intended for the future.  . But the full belly of the wealthy person is not enough to let him sleep.

See also below, p. 89, n. 20.  – we are invited to explain the pseudonym or pen name, since the other two books of the Hebrew Bible ascribed to him are more explicit at the same juncture: [This is] the song of songs which is Solomon’s. Cant 1:1 [These are] the words of Solomon, son of David, King of Israel. 7 While not denying the possibility that at least some of the book may go back to Solomonic times, scholars speculate that later editors or compilers simply appended the name to give the book greater authority – we might say, in today’s market culture, to sell more books.

Jeffrey M. Green; New York: Schocken, 1998), 58. 2 Maurice Blanchot, La part du feu (Paris: Gallimard, 1949), 327. Blanchot’s “langage vrai” as arising from personal transformation and rebirth corresponds nicely with Qohelet’s own journey from vanity/emptiness toward the pursuit of “words of truth” (12:10). 3 For a summary of the autobiographical element, see Tremper Longman III, The Book of Ecclesiastes (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998). See also Michael V. Fox, A Time to Tear Down and a Time to Build Up: A Rereading of Ecclesiastes (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999), 153–55.

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