Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually [Hardcover]

This volume continues the study of intertextuality in the 'Wisdom Literature' initiated inReading Job Intertextually(Dell and Kynes, T&T Clark, 2012). Like that book,Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextuallyprovides the first comprehensive treatment of intertextuality in this wisdom text. Articles address intertextual resonances between Ecclesiastes and texts across the Hebrew canon, along with texts throughout history, from Greek classical literature to the New Testament, Jewish and Christian interpretation, and existential and Modern philosophy.

As a multi-authored volume that gathers together scholars with expertise on this diverse array of texts, this collection provides exegetical insight that exceeds any similar attempt by a single author. The contributors have been encouraged to pursue the intertextual approach that best suits their topic, thereby offering readers a valuable collection of intertextual case studies addressing a single text.

1. Introduction
Katharine Dell and Will Kynes
Part I: Ecclesiastes in Dialogue with the Hebrew Bible
2. Exploring Intertextual Links between Ecclesiastes and Genesis 111
Katharine Dell
3. Follow Your Heart and Do Not Say It Was a Mistake:
Qoheleth's Allusions to Numbers 15 and the Story of the Spies
Will Kynes
4. Better That You Should Not Vow Than That You Vow and Not Fulfill:
Qoheleth's Use of Textual Allusion and the Transformation of Deuteronomy's Law of Vows
Bernard M. Levinson
5. Qoheleth as Solomon: For What Can Anyone Who Comes after the King Do? (Eccl 2:12)
Tremper Longman III
6. Qoheleth and Isaiah in Dialogue
Richard Schultz
7. Polyphonic Narration in Ecclesiastes and Jonah
Mary Mills
8. Of Snakes and Sinners:
An Intertextual Reading of Ba?alc%