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Language: English
Published by Penn State University Press, 1993
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- Title
- Dialogues with Kohelet: The Book of Ecclesiastes. Translation and Commentary
- Author
- Perry, Theodore A.
- Publisher
- Penn State University Press
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0271008822
- ISBN 13
- 9780271008820
Kohelet is known in world literature as the source of two messages. On the one hand, it is a handbook of world-weariness and pessimism: "All is vanity." On the other, it asserts that all things have their right time, "a time to live, and a time to die." But these two messages are contradictory, for if all is vain, then there is no need to reflect on the proper time for planting and dancing and laughing.
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About the Author
T. A. Perry is Professor of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, and author of several books including The Moral Proverbs of Santob de Carrión (1987) and Wisdom Literature and the Structure of Proverbs (Penn State, forthcoming 1993).
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