01146nam a2200193Ia 4500 230822s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97808028040510802804055 eng BS1475.2 .E4613 1990 Ellul, Jacques 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 Bible. Ecclesiastes Criticism, interpretation, etc.Bible. Ecclesiastes Meditations.Bible. Ecclesiastes. Hanks, Joyce Main 45440 45440