Such is life!
a close encounter with Ecclesiastes
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Author
Publication
2010 - Steele Roberts Pub., Wellington, N.Z, New Zealand
Language
English
Word Count
53,500 words, Guess
Page Count
214 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesuchislifeclosee0000geer
- ISBN-101877448885
- ISBN-139781877448881
- OCLC Control Number502401564
- Open LibraryOL32145160M
Classifications
- DDC223.806
- LCCBS1475.52
Description
Although 23 centuries have passed since a Jewish sage calling himself the Proclaimer (Ecclesiastes) set down his thoughts about life, they are strangely in tune with today's secular age. Lloyd Geering has ingeniously brought Ecclesiastes to life in a series of dialogues which show that, in today's terminology, Ecclesiastes was a free-thinker, a humanist and an existentialist. In fact, this biblical heretic is at odds with the rest of the Bible - he found no discernible thread of purpose in life or the universe, and proposes that though Nature operates in cycles, much of human life is determined by sheer chance. The role of the sage, as Ecclesiastes saw it, was not to pass on gems of eternal wisdom, but to goad us to think things out for ourselves in our search for meaning.
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- Such is life!: a close encounter with Ecclesiastes
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