Times as Task, Not Timing: Reconsidering Qoheleth’s Catalogue of the Times

This essay examines Qoheleth’s Catalogue of the Times poem in Eccl 3:2–8. I argue that the two most common scholarly interpretations of the poem’s overall meaning fail to sufficiently account for its literary context and that an underdeveloped alternative reading is to be preferred. When we read the...

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Main Author: Peterson, Jesse (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Vetus Testamentum
Year: 2022, Volume: 72, Issue: 3, Pages: 444-473
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Time / Sermon / Christian Poetry / Bible. Kohelet 1,4-11 / Bible. Kohelet 3,2-8 / Bible. Kohelet 3,9-15
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
HD Early Judaism
HH Archaeology
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