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Ecclesiastes
By (Author) R. Norman Whybray
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Sheffield Academic Press
1st August 1989
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts
223.8
Paperback
88
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
118g
Ecclesiastes is at once a strange book and a modern one, at once enigmatic and curiously familiar. Here we find a man detached from the world and yet intensely aware of it, setting down in writing his thoughts about human life. Yet from the very first his readers have been unable to agree about his basic attitude to life. Whybray sorts through the options by asking questions regarding the author, his times, his language and his ideas.
The late was Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Studies at the Univeristy of Hull.