01100nam a2200169Ia 4500008004100000020002800041041000800069050002700077100002000104245010800124260004900232300002800281500004000309505045000349650010800799700002300907230822s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a97808028040510802804055  aeng  aBS1475.2 b.E4613 1990  aEllul, Jacques  4aThe reason for being : ba meditation on Ecclesiastes /cJacques Ellul ; translated by Joyce Main Hanks  aGrand Rapids, Mich. : bW.B. Eerdmans,c1990  aviii, 306 p.b;c22 cm.  aTranslation of: La raison d'être.  a1. 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  aBible. Ecclesiastes Criticism, interpretation, etc.Bible. Ecclesiastes Meditations.Bible. Ecclesiastes.  aHanks, Joyce Main