Time in the Book of Ecclesiastes

Mette Bundvad
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-873970-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs

Time in the Book of Ecclesiastes offers a detailed analysis of the theme of time in Ecclesiastes. The book of Ecclesiastes engages at length with this theme and presents a sophisticated exploration of humanity's temporal situation. Ecclesiastes depicts the temporal reality as extremely problematic for human attempts to live meaningfully. This is especially due to the tension which the book's narrator perceives between the cosmic, temporal reality and the
human experience of time. Consequently, humanity's cognitive engagement with time becomes a particular focus in his exploration of life under the sun.

Time is not only a central theme in Ecclesiastes; it is also a theme which provides this difficult book with a degree of coherence and renders meaningful some of the passages which otherwise seem contradictory. Furthermore, the explicit exploration in Ecclesiastes of the theme of time provides an excellent entry-point into the broader discussion regarding the presence and character of temporal thinking in the Hebrew Bible more generally. Mirroring the interest in Ecclesiastes for both, Dr Mette
Bundvad discusses the biblical book's presentation of both the cosmic temporal structures and the framework of the human past, present and future. It offers close readings of a series of passages in which the theme of time is especially prominent, thus demonstrating how the discussion of time works
in Ecclesiastes and how it interacts with other of the book's key-themes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bundvad, Mette

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Mette Bundvad holds a Carlsberg postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Copenhagen where she studies visions and vision-space in the Hebrew Bible and beyond.