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Book SynopsisWill Kynes lectures in Old Testament at St Peter's College, Oxford, UK.
Katharine Dell is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University, UK and Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Oxford, UK
Table of Contents1. Introduction Katharine Dell and Will Kynes
Part I: Ecclesiastes in Dialogue with the Hebrew Bible 2. Exploring Intertextual Links between Ecclesiastes and Genesis 1–11 Katharine Dell 3. Follow Your Heart and Do Not Say It Was a Mistake: Qoheleth’s Allusions to Numbers 15 and the Story of the Spies Will Kynes 4. “Better That You Should Not Vow Than That You Vow and Not Fulfill”: Qoheleth’s Use of Textual Allusion and the Transformation of Deuteronomy’s Law of Vows Bernard M. Levinson 5. Qoheleth as Solomon: “For What Can Anyone Who Comes after the King Do?” (Eccl 2:12) Tremper Longman III 6. Qoheleth and Isaiah in Dialogue Richard Schultz 7. Polyphonic Narration in Ecclesiastes and Jonah Mary Mills 8. Of Snakes and Sinners: An Intertextual Reading of Ba?al ha-lashon in Ecclesiastes 10:11 in Light of ?Ish lashon in Psalm 140:12[11] Tova Forti 9. “And They Have No Comforter” Job and Ecclesiastes in Dialogue Thomas Krüger 10. Intertextuality and Economics: Reading Ecclesiastes with Proverbs Milton P. Horne 11. Seeking and Finding in Ecclesiastes and Proverbs Daniel J. Estes 12. Solomon, Wisdom, and Love Intertextual Resonance between Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs Brittany N. Melton 13. The Inner-Textuality of Qoheleth’s Monologue Stuart Weeks
Part II: Ecclesiastes in Dialogue with Texts Throughout History 14. Ecclesiastes in the Intertextual Matrix of Ancient Near Eastern Literature William H. U. Anderson 15. Ecclesiastes among the Comedians John Jarick 16. A Reassessment of Sirach’s Relationship to Qoheleth: A Case Study of Qoheleth 3:15 and Sirach 5:3 Bradley C. Gregory 17. Intertextual Connections between the Wisdom of Solomon and Qoheleth Lester L. Grabbe 18. Wisdom, Apocalypticism and Intertextuality: The Book of Ecclesiastes and the Sociolect of the Dead Sea Scrolls Matthew Goff 19. The Intertextuality of Ecclesiastes and the New Testament Craig G. Bartholomew 20. Qoheleth’s Israel in Jerome’s
Commentarius in Ecclesiasten Jennie Grillo 21. Ecclesiastes, Augustine’s
uti/frui Distinction, and Christ as the Waste of the World Susannah Ticciati 22. Examples of Intertextuality in Ecclesiastes Rabbah: An Examination of the Book of Psalms in Ecclesiastes Rabbah with Methodological Nuances Michail Kitsos 23. Remembering in One’s Youth Kierkegaard Reading Ecclesiastes as an Edifying Discourse Hugh Pyper 24. Ecclesiastes in Dialogue with Modernity: A Matter of Life and Death Daniel J. Treier
