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Genre/Form: | Commentaries |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Heim, Knut Martin, Ecclesiastes Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, [2019]. (DLC) 2019027287 (OCoLC)1107067297 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Knut Martin Heim |
ISBN: | 9780830842650 0830842659 |
OCLC Number: | 1104477905 |
Description: | xvi, 208 pages ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Title and authorship -- Intertextual issues -- Canonical significance -- Date and historical context -- Language and style, genres and intention -- Theological and practical message -- Analysis -- Translation -- Commentary. |
Series Title: | Tyndale Old Testament commentaries, 18. |
Other Titles: | Bible. |
Responsibility: | Knut Martin Heim. |
Abstract:
"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"--
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