The reason for being : a meditation on Ecclesiastes /
Jacques Ellul ; translated by Joyce Main Hanks
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 1990
- viii, 306 p. ; 22 cm.
Translation of: La raison d'être.
1. Preliminary, polemical, nondefinitive postscript -- My purpose in this book -- The ultimate paradox: Another book on Ecclesiastes -- Presuppositions in studies of Ecclesiastes -- Critical agreement and pseudonymity in Ecclesiastes -- Wisdom and poetry -- Philosophy, truth, and reality in Qohelet -- Qohelet as ritual incantation -- Structure in Qohelet -- Contradiction as an essential principle of Qohelet -- Qohelet and the Feast of Sukkot