UID:
almafu_9960117431302883
Format:
1 online resource (xxi, 256 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-28945-1
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1-316-31011-6
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1-316-32349-8
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1-107-45844-7
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1-316-33017-6
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1-316-33351-5
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1-316-32683-7
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1-316-10449-4
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1-316-32013-8
Content:
This is the first full-length study of Ecclesiastes using methods of philosophical exegesis, specifically those of the modern French philosophers Levinas and Blanchot. T. A. Perry opens up new horizons in the philosophical understanding of the Hebrew Bible, offering a series of meditations on its general spiritual outlook. Perry breaks down Ecclesiastes' motto 'all is vanity' and returns 'vanity' to its original concrete meaning of 'breath', the breath of life. This central and forgotten teaching of Ecclesiastes leads to new areas of breath research related both to environmentalism and breath control.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; List of credits; Part One Human Hebel ("Vanity"): Sins of Collection; 1 "I Qohelet Was King" (1:12): The Collector Theme (1:12-2:26); Autobiography and the Confessional Perspective; Sins of Collection: The Theme of King Qohelet; Wisdom: A Collectible or a What?; "I Qohelet Was King" (1:12): Aging and Vulnerability; 2 Fool's Toil (1:2-3); 3 Excess and Its Passions (1:8-11); The Vocabulary of Excess; The Passions; Quietism Then?; 4 A Practical Guide for Living Wisely
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Setting Natural Limits: Cycles Organ and Self-Control: Eyes, Hands, Feet; What Is within the Range of Vision; The Near at Hand; Feet; Concepts of Time: The Present, Dailiness; Attitudes, Expectations, the Joy of Contentment; Part Two Universal Hebel ("Wind"): Transience, Time, and Indifference; 5 Cosmic Patterns of Return and Renewal; The Opening Cosmology (1:4-7); Wechseldauer: The Stable Structures of Transience; 6 The Catalog of Human Times (3:1-8); A Merismic Universe; Humans "Under the Sun": The Dialectic; Negatives; An Indifferent Universe and Its Song of Mere Being
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Part Three The Hebel of "Dis-aster": Totalities, Transcendence, and Crossover Concepts7 Totalities and the Outside (Dehors); Totalities and Their Limitations; The Outside (Dehors) and the Neuter or Neutral; 8 Living "Under the Sun" and with Transience; 9 Breath of Breaths: Qohelet's Motto and Theme and Refrain; The Effects of Poetic Language; Toward the Peshat or Concrete Literal Meaning of Hebel: Is Breath "Vanity"?; The Dynamism and Transcendence of Metaphor: Cosmology; The Peshat as Metaphor: The Breath of Life; The All as the Hebel of Hebels: God as the Metaphor of Metaphors
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Part Four The Hebel of Words10 Nothing Remains (1:3)? Nothing New (1:9; 12:8-12)?; The Great Inclusio (1:2-3; 12:8-9); Im-mortal Remains: The Great Void or the Nothing That Is; Mortal Remains: Writing Fragments, Collecting Students, Righting Proverbs (12:9-11); Qohelet as a Foundational Myth; Part Five Theological Conclusions; 11 Qohelet's Very Final Words; 12 Qohelet's Very First Words; 13 The "All" of Humans; Conclusions; Qohelet the Poet and the Practice of Language; Discussion; Debate; Judgment and Evaluation (e.g., "Better-Than" Statements); Skepticism and Piety
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Back to Our Place: This World of Death and Rebirth : Primary or Transitional Experiences under the Sun; Living with and through Transience: Simple Joys, Simply Joy; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-316-31679-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-08804-6
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316104491
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