Ecclesiastes 5-12: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary (International Critical Commentary) Hardcover – December 16, 2021 by Stuart Weeks

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Author: Weeks Stuart

Package Dimensions: 0x216x788

Number Of Pages: 752

Release Date: 16-12-2021

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This volume completes Stuart Weeks’ commentary on the book of Ecclesiastes, also known as Qoheleth. Weeks draws together all the relevant tools for understanding this complex wisdom book in the Old Testament. As is the hallmark of the ICC no stone is left unturned as Weeks considers the full range of linguistic, textual, archaeological, literary and theological interpretations of the text.Week incorporates recent interpretation alongside the history of research to examine the text of Ecclesiastes 6-12 in the closest possible, offering a reading of what may have be the original writer’s linguistic and theological intent.The volume is a companion to Weeks’ previous commentary on chapters 1-5 of Ecclesiastes, which also contains his exhaustive bibliography of works relevant to the study of the text.
About the Author
Dr Stuart Weeks MA (Oxon.) MPhil DPhil, Senior Lecturer in Old Testament and Hebrew, Durham University, UK. He is the author of Early Israelite Wisdom (OUP, 1994) and Instructions & Imagery in Proverbs 1-9 (OUP, 2007). He is writing the ICC volume on Ecclesiastes for T&T Clark.

Christopher Tuckett is Professor in New Testament in the University of Oxford.

Graham I. Davies is Emeritus Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Cambridge, and a Life Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK.