Ecclesiastes Through the CenturiesISBN: 978-0-631-22529-4
Hardcover
336 pages
January 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Presents an innovative, reception history approach to the study
of Ecclesiastes, by tracing its influence on religion, culture,
literature, art and social thought.
- Explores a fascinating range of Jewish and Christian
readings.
- Features engaging and unusual examples from art, music,
literature and history: from Thackeray and Orwell, to Salvador
Dali’s Illustrated Bible, to the inflammatory
exposition of Ecclesiastes at the funeral of Queen Mary.
- This is the third Old Testament volume published in the
innovative Blackwell Bible Commentaries series.
- The series is supported by a wensite at www.bbicomm.net.