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The Book of Ecclesiastes
Tremper Longman
出版
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
, 1998
主題
Bibles / General
Religion / Biblical Commentary / General
Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
Religion / Biblical Meditations / General
Religion / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
Religion / Biblical Studies / Old Testament / Poetry & Wisdom Literature
Religion / Biblical Commentary / Old Testament / Poetry & Wisdom Literature
ISBN
0802823661
9780802823663
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2YnSRZUSv2sC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Ecclesiastes is one of the most fascinating -- and hauntingly familiar -- books of the Old Testament. The sentiments of the main speaker of the book, a person given the name Qohelet, sound incredibly modern. Expressing the uncertainty and anxieties of our own age, he is driven by the question, "Where can we find meaning in the world?"
But while Qohelet's question resonates with readers today, his answer is shocking. "Meaningless," says Qohelet, "everything is meaningless." How does this pessimistic perspective fit into the rest of biblical revelation? In this commentary Tremper Longman III addresses this question by taking a canonical-Christocentric approach to the meaning of Ecclesiastes.
Longman first provides an extensive introduction to Ecclesiastes, exploring such background matters as authorship, language, genre, structure, literary style, and the book's theological message. He argues that the author of Ecclesiastes is not Solomon, as has been traditionally thought, but a writer who adopts a Solomonic persona. In the verse-by-verse commentary that follows, Longman helps clarify the confusing, sometimes contradictory message of Ecclesiastes by showing that the book should be divided into three sections -- a prologue (1:1-11), Qohelet's autobiographical speech (1:12-12:7), and an epilogue (12:8-14) -- and that the frame narrative provided by prologue and epilogue is the key to understanding the message of the book as a whole.