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1 online resource (443 pages) |
| Series |
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 327 |
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 327.
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| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 PROLEGOMENA: TOWARD A THEORY OF READING SCRIPTURAL TEXTS; Chapter 2 READING ECCLESIASTES AS A FIRST-PERSON SCRIPTURAL TEXT; Chapter 3 AMBIGUITIES, RIDDLES AND PUZZLES: AN OVERVIEW OF THE LINGUISTIC AND STRUCTURAL READER PROBLEMS IN THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES; Chapter 4 THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL SPIRAL: THE IRONIC USE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE KNOWLEDGE IN THE NARRATIVE PRESENTATION OF QOHELETH; Chapter 5 ROBUST RETICENCE AND THE RHETORIC OF THE SELF: READER RELATIONSHIPS AND THE USE OF FIRST-PERSON DISCOURSE IN ECCLESIASTES 1.1-6.9 |
| Summary |
The Book of Ecclesiastes, like many ancient and modern first-person discourses, generates ambivalent responses in its readers. The book's rhetorical strategy produces both acceptance of, and suspicion towards, the major positions argued by the author. 'Vain rhetoric' aptly describes the persuasive and dissuasive properties of the narrator's peculiar characterization. It also describes how the Book of Ecclesiates, with its abundant use of rhetorical questions, constant gapping techniques, and other strategies from the arsenal of ambiguity, is a stunning testimony to the power of the various str |
| Notes |
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Graduate Theological Union, 1997 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-431) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Ecclesiastes -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Ecclesiastes -- Language, style
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Bible. Ecclesiastes. fast (OCoLC)fst01892894 |
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Rhetoric in the Bible.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Wisdom Literature.
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Prediker (bijbelboek)
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Verteltheorie.
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Rhetoric in the Bible.
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Retorica.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780567644541 |
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0567644545 |
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1281841773 |
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9781281841773 |
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9786611841775 |
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6611841776 |
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