Ecclesiastes

Craig G. Bartholomew

Baker Academic, 2009 - Religion - 448 pages

Respected Old Testament scholar Craig Bartholomew, coauthor of the well-received Drama of Scripture, provides a careful exegetical reading of Ecclesiastes in this addition to the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms series. Along with helpful translation and commentary, Ecclesiastes considers the theological implications of the text and its literary, historical, and grammatical dimensions. Footnotes deal with many of the technical matters, allowing readers of varying levels of interest and training to read and profit from the commentary and to engage the biblical text at an appropriate level. Pastors, teachers, and all serious students of the Bible will find here an accessible commentary that will serve as an excellent resource for their study.

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Helpful exegetical and practical resource

User Review  - HebrewDoc - Christianbook.com

This is one of the best newer commentaries on Ecclesiastes. Like most evangelical works of late, he disappointingly fails to uphold Solomonic authorship of the book (Garrett in the NAC is a happy ...

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User Review  - stevebishop - LibraryThing

Excellent - a first-class commentary

Contents

• Series Preface: 9
• Introduction: 17
• Prologue 1111: 101
• 12127: 119
• 1218 121: 175
• 116: 183
• 17 41756: 201
• 817 716: 214
• 1820 1719: 224
• 112: 232
• 113: 244
• 1422: 253
• N Qohelets Reflection on His Journey and the Inaccessibility: 263
• 112: 296
• 1318: 312
• 16: 334
• Epilogue 12814: 359
• Postmodernism Psychology Spiritual Formation: 375
• Bibliography: 391
• Subject Index: 421
• Author Index: 431
• Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Writings: 439

About the author

Craig G. Bartholomew (PhD, University of Bristol) is the H. Evan Runner Professor of Philosophy at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario, and the principal of The Paideia Centre for Public Theology. He is the author of Reading Ecclesiastes: Old Testament Exegesis and Hermeneutical Theory and coauthor of The Drama of Scripture and Living at the Crossroads. He was the founder and convener of the ten-year Scripture and Hermeneutics Project as well as the coeditor of the eight substantial volumes that emerged from the project.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ecclesiastes; Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms
• Author: Craig G. Bartholomew
• Publisher: Baker Academic, 2009
• ISBN: 0801026911, 9780801026911
• Length: 448 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Biblical Commentary / General; Religion / Biblical Commentary / Old Testament; Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament