Being as Breath, Vapor as Joy: Using Martin Heidegger to Re-read the Book of Ecclesiastes
This article is a philosophical re-examination of Ecclesiastes using the work of Martin Heidegger, particularly his early work in Being and Time. Heidegger's focus on death, temporality, and history provides a powerful and compelling framework for understanding these same themes in Ecclesiastes...
| Published in: | Journal for the study of the Old Testament |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2008
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| In: |
Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2008, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 219-244 |
| Further subjects: | B
Vanity
B Ecclesiastes B Hebel B Martin Heidegger B Qohelet B Being and Time B Wisdom Literature |
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| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | This article is a philosophical re-examination of Ecclesiastes using the work of Martin Heidegger, particularly his early work in Being and Time. Heidegger's focus on death, temporality, and history provides a powerful and compelling framework for understanding these same themes in Ecclesiastes. In elaborating these philosophical motifs and correspondences, this article proposes that לכה should be understood as an analog to Heidegger's concept of Geschichtlichkeit (historicity). If לכה is understood as such, then most of the traditionally puzzling terms in Ecclesiastes (e.g. םלעה, למע, החמש) can be made sense of using the aforementioned philosophical framework. This framework additionally shows that Ecclesiastes (like Being and Time) cannot be understood as a proto-existentialist text. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-6728 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0309089208099257 |