[Rezension von: Takeuchi, Kumiko, 1946-, Death and divine judgment in Ecclesiastes]
Kumiko Takeuchi has written a stimulating book about death and divine judgement in Ecclesiastes, including how these two themes might inform the book’s original social situation. She regards death as the book’s overriding concern and judgement as something unspecified by Qohelet but fitting as a res...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 918-919 |
| Review of: | Death and divine judgment in Ecclesiastes (University Park, Pennsylvania : Eisenbrauns, 2019) (Keefer, Arthur)
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| Summary: | Kumiko Takeuchi has written a stimulating book about death and divine judgement in Ecclesiastes, including how these two themes might inform the book’s original social situation. She regards death as the book’s overriding concern and judgement as something unspecified by Qohelet but fitting as a resolution to his problems. The first half of Takeuchi’s work deals with introductory matters: beliefs about death and the afterlife in the ancient Near East, Greece, and Israel, and ways of reading Ecclesiastes that account for Qohelet’s monologue and the frame narrator. In the second half of the work, three chapters interpret Ecclesiastes, considering death and judgement (ch. 4), Qohelet’s epistemological challenges (ch. 5), and Ecclesiastes 12 in relation to the purposes of Qohelet and the narrator (ch. 6). A seventh chapter proposes what function Ecclesiastes may have had for an audience of the mid-Second Temple period, and a final, two-page conclusion summarizes several points of the argument alongside some personal reflections of the author. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flab089 |