The use of hebel in Ecclesiastes: A political and economic reading

A hermeneutical cloud still dominates ongoing discourse on the meaning and application of הֶבֶל (hebel), a crucial weaving thread in the book of Ecclesiastes. The Hebrew Qoheleth, presumably the disguised author, proposes the theological ideology of hebel as the totality of human existence in this b...

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Главный автор: Biwul, Joel K. T. (Автор)
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Опубликовано: 2017
В: HTS teologiese studies
Год: 2017, Том: 73, Выпуск: 3
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