Determinism in the Book of EcclesiastesA&C Black, 2001 M09 1 - 234 pages Is the author of Ecclesisastes a determinist? Many readers, from the Targumist and Ibn Ezra up to the present day, have thought so. But there has been no systematic investigation of Qoheleth's determinism, its nature and extent, its relationship to free will and its philosophical background. In separate chapters, Rudman discusses key terms and texts that express a deterministic worldview, then explores the sources for Qoheleth's thought. He concludes that the author was a sage writing in the third quarter of the third century BCE, who was profoundly influenced by Stoic ideas. |
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... Hand - Commentar zum Alten Testament King James Version H.G. Liddell , Robin Scott and H. Stuart Jones , Greek - English Lexicon ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 9th edn , 1968 ) Münchener Universitätsschriften Katholisch - Theologische ...
... Hand - Commentar zum Alten Testament King James Version H.G. Liddell , Robin Scott and H. Stuart Jones , Greek - English Lexicon ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 9th edn , 1968 ) Münchener Universitätsschriften Katholisch - Theologische ...
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... hand , the situation that we find in the Hellenistic period is also one in which these conditions occurred . Whereas very little is known for sure about the socioeconomic situation in Palestine during the later Persian period to which ...
... hand , the situation that we find in the Hellenistic period is also one in which these conditions occurred . Whereas very little is known for sure about the socioeconomic situation in Palestine during the later Persian period to which ...
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... hand , evidence also exists for a deterministic worldview in biblical texts that date from before the Hellenistic period . Under these circumstances , the explanation offered by the sinner for his actions in this passage from Ben Sira ...
... hand , evidence also exists for a deterministic worldview in biblical texts that date from before the Hellenistic period . Under these circumstances , the explanation offered by the sinner for his actions in this passage from Ben Sira ...
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... hand . No more a product of chance is the element of unpredictability noted by Crenshaw behind the use of the verbal form 77p ' happen ' in 9.11 . This is illustrated in the use of the term once more in 9.12 : ' Human beings do not know ...
... hand . No more a product of chance is the element of unpredictability noted by Crenshaw behind the use of the verbal form 77p ' happen ' in 9.11 . This is illustrated in the use of the term once more in 9.12 : ' Human beings do not know ...
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... hand , it is the deity who gives the opportunity for joy to human beings . In 3.13 , for example , ' the gift of God ' is the ability ' to eat and to drink and to experience the good of all one's toil ' ) . 39 How- ever , the real idea ...
... hand , it is the deity who gives the opportunity for joy to human beings . In 3.13 , for example , ' the gift of God ' is the ability ' to eat and to drink and to experience the good of all one's toil ' ) . 39 How- ever , the real idea ...
Contents
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THE DETERMINATION OF THE COSMOS AND HUMANITY IN ECCLESIASTES 138 | 70 |
A REREADING OF ECCLESIASTES 3115 | 83 |
THE DIVINE DETERMINATION OF EMOTION IN ECCLESIASTES | 99 |
QOHELETH AND HUMAN JOY | 126 |
Chapter 7 QOHELETH AND THE PROBLEM OF FREE WILL | 144 |
Chapter 8 DETERMINISM IN EARLY JEWISH LITERATURE | 160 |
Chapter 9 QOHELETH AND STOIC DETERMINISM | 173 |
Chapter 10 CONCLUSION | 200 |
Bibliography | 207 |
Index of References | 214 |
Index of Modern Authors | 224 |
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