Time and Tradition : Temporal Thinking in Ecclesiastes in the Context of Emerging Apocalypticism and the History of Ideas in the Hellenistic Period

Moritz F. Adam

ISBN 10: 3161647971 / ISBN 13: 9783161647970

Published by Mohr Siebeck Gmbh & Co. K Dez 2025, 2025

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Neuware - Moritz F. Adam explores conceptions of time in the book of Ecclesiastes and its place in the history of thought in Hellenistic Judaism. He situates Ecclesiastes before a wider panorama of emerging apocalyptic thought and investigates how the text reflects, resists, and reworks prevailing ideas about time, history, knowledge, and meaning. Adam shows how Ecclesiastes stands at an important moment of conceptual transformation to the manner in which time was thought about in ancient Judaism, and how the book reflects new, broader, totalising, and abstract concerns in conversation with contemporary interlocutors. Through textual studies, comparative discussions and theoretical engagements with the fields of Classics and Literature, Adam challenges scholarly boundaries between wisdom, apocalypticism, and other genres, and highlights Ecclesiastes' pluralistic, open-ended discourse as a vital part of ancient Jewish thought.; Die Vorstellungen von Zeit im Buch Kohelet stehen vor einem weiteren Horizont der Geistesgeschichte des hellenistischen Judentums, vor allem dem Aufkommen apokalyptischen Denkens. Moritz F. Adam erörtert die intellektuelle Offenheit und die literarische wie intellektuelle Verflechtung des Buches Kohelet an einem entscheidenden Wendepunkt des biblischen Denkens.

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• Title: Time and Tradition : Temporal Thinking in Ecclesiastes in the Context of Emerging Apocalypticism and the History of Ideas in the Hellenistic Period
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck Gmbh & Co. K Dez 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3161647971
• ISBN 13: 9783161647970
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 251W x 166H x 30D millimeters 251 millimeters width by 166 millimeters height by 30 millimeters depth
• Weight: 634 grams

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English summary: Moritz F. Adam explores conceptions of time in the book of Ecclesiastes and its place in the history of thought in Hellenistic Judaism. He situates Ecclesiastes before a wider panorama of emerging apocalyptic thought and investigates how the text reflects, resists, and reworks prevailing ideas about time, history, knowledge, and meaning. Adam shows how Ecclesiastes stands at an important moment of conceptual transformation to the manner in which time was thought about in ancient Judaism, and how the book reflects new, broader, totalising, and abstract concerns in conversation with contemporary interlocutors. Through textual studies, comparative discussions and theoretical engagements with the fields of Classics and Literature, Adam challenges scholarly boundaries between wisdom, apocalypticism, and other genres, and highlights Ecclesiastes' pluralistic, open-ended discourse as a vital part of ancient Jewish thought. German description: Die Vorstellungen von Zeit im Buch Kohelet stehen vor einem weiteren Horizont der Geistesgeschichte des hellenistischen Judentums, vor allem dem Aufkommen apokalyptischen Denkens. Moritz F. Adam erortert die intellektuelle Offenheit und die literarische wie intellektuelle Verflechtung des Buches Kohelet an einem entscheidenden Wendepunkt des biblischen Denkens.