Buch, Französisch, Band Volume 168, 629 Seiten
Reihe: Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis
Avec une bibliographie (1988-1998) élaborée par Béatrice Perregaux Allison
Buch, Französisch, Band Volume 168, 629 Seiten
Reihe: Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis
ISBN: 978-3-7278-1255-2
Verlag: Peeters Publishers
interpretation; it is a booklet of wisdom that has gone through two
important and successive remodelings. However, at each stage of its
transmission the work’s global structure can be studied. The study’s
first part expounds the inital booklet which is the work of the master
of a school of wisdom during the Persian era (5th century B.C.), called
“Qoheleth the Wise”.
A first rereading modifies the book in a fundamental way: it sets its
pessimistic key of interpretation at the very beginning in 1, 2, and
continues in that manner which can be explained by the chaotic situation
of the first decades of the Hellenistic period.
The second rereading proposes the following solution for the tension
thus brought about between the praise of joy and the profound pessimism:
It attributes any negative aspects exclusively to the world of humanity
and places all hopes in God and eternity. This corresponds with
theological tendencies expressed in the latter part of the 3rd century
B.C.