Ecclesiastes: An Introduction and Commentary

Ecclesiastes: An Introduction and Commentary

Ecclesiastes: An Introduction and Commentary

Ecclesiastes: An Introduction and Commentary

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Overview

The book of Ecclesiastes is probably best known for its repeated refrain that "everything is meaningless," or "vanity." However, a thorough reading demonstrates that this is not its final conclusion.

Knut Heim's Tyndale commentary shows that the book is intellectually sophisticated, theologically rich, emotionally deep—and full of humor. While it is realistic about life, it is life-affirming and immensely practical. It is also politically engaged, presenting its critique of a repressive foreign regime in an entertaining and thought-provoking way.

The Tyndale Commentaries are designed to help the reader of the Bible understand what the text says and what it means. The Introduction to each book gives a concise but thorough treatment of its authorship, date, original setting, and purpose. Following a structural Analysis, the Commentary takes the book section by section, drawing out its main themes, and also comments on individual verses and problems of interpretation. Additional Notes provide fuller discussion of particular difficulties.

In the new Old Testament volumes, the commentary on each section of the text is structured under three headings: Context, Comment, and Meaning. The goal is to explain the true meaning of the Bible and make its message plain.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780830842650
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 10/15/2019
Series: Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Knut Martin Heim is professor of Old Testament at Denver Seminary. Previously he taught at The Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education (University of Birmingham, UK) and at Trinity College Bristol, UK.


David Firth is Old Testament tutor and B.A. course leader at Cliff College, Derbyshire. He is the author of Responses to Violence in Complaint Psalms of the Individual (forthcoming).


Tremper Longman III (PhD, Yale University) is Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is also visiting professor of Old Testament at Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and adjunct of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. He lectures regularly at Regent College in Vancouver and the Canadian Theological Seminary in Calgary. Longman is the author or coauthor of over twenty books, including How to Read Genesis, How to Read the Psalms, How to Read Proverbs, Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation, Old Testament Essentials and coeditor of A Complete Literary Guide to the Bible. He and Dan Allender have coauthored Bold Love, Cry of the Soul, Intimate Allies, The Intimate Mystery and the Intimate Marriage Bible studies.

Table of Contents

General Preface
Author’s Preface
Abbreviations
Select Bibliography

Introduction
1. Title and Authorship
2. Intertextual Issues
3. Canonical Significance
4. Date and Historical Context
5. Language and Style, Genres and Intention
6. Theological and Practical Message
Analysis
Translation
Commentary

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