Ecclesiastes An Earth Bible Commentary

Author : Marie Turner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567674584
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecclesiastes: An Earth Bible Commentary written by Marie Turner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qoheleth is one of the most challenging and intriguing of the biblical authors. Above all, he is attentive to life's realities, neither optimistic about the world nor unappreciative of its goodness and pleasures. In this volume, Turner examines the writings of Qoheleth in the book of Ecclesiastes and provides an ecological reading of the text that gives readers clear insights into how biblical wisdom literature can be used to respond to the challenges facing the environment in the present day, as well as advancing the field of ecological hermeneutics. In this commentary Turner looks at the concept of Qoheleth's 'eternal earth', moving through the chapters of Ecclesiastes with an ear attuned to the voice of the Earth as it struggles to be heard above the voice of the economy. Such a voice is not necessarily antagonistic to that of Earth, but neither is it neutral. The ecological reader knows that a prudent economy is necessary for living, but if it is given precedence at the expense of Earth, there will be no future, let alone 'eternity', for Earth. Eco-justice demands that contemporary readers should be mindful of future generations and heed Qoheleth's counsel to value the fruits of one's labour without greed, allowing ecological hermeneutics to provide insights into contemporary environmental issues. Illustrating how a biblical framework for environmentally responsible living may be generated, Turner's analysis is vital both to those studying Qoheleth and to those invested in the Bible and ecology.

Author : Kathleen Anne Farmer
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802801616
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Knows what is Good? written by Kathleen Anne Farmer and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Farmer's work on the Books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes constitute a single volume in the International Theological Commentary, a series whose goal is to bring the Old Testament alive in the worldwide church. In moving behyond the usual critical-historical approach to the bible, the ITC offers a distinctive theological interpretation of the Hebrew text.

Author : Jione Havea
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567693775
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonah: An Earth Bible Commentary written by Jione Havea and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jione Havea analyses the Book of Jonah through the lens of climate change, using this present situation to reconsider the significance of Jonah for contemporary struggles and contexts, and tapping into traditional practices of commentary to draw out the meaning of the biblical text. Havea takes Jonah 3:10 as a starting point, in which God repents and rethinks (decides not to destroy), taking this as a challenge and an opportunity for biblical scholars to reflect on the realities of climate change. Havea builds on this opportunity in two ways: first, by reading Jonah forward, giving special attention to the orientation of the narrative toward the sea and Nineveh, and then backward, highlighting the significance of sea and (is)land lives to the flow of the narrative. Second, by looking at the other figures in the narrative, rather than focusing on the narrator's obsession with Jonah and his God. Havea reminds readers that the fish, plant, worm and other beasts are also crucial in this narrative, and considers how this can change our reading of the text.

Author : Alice M. Sinnott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567676234
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruth: An Earth Bible Commentary written by Alice M. Sinnott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ecological reading of the book of Ruth takes into account the power which this short story holds, speaking to the whole person by engaging each reader's emotions, imagination, memory, and reason. Alice M. Sinnott demonstrates how the story of Ruth transcends geographical, spatial and historical boundaries by appealing to all concerned with the plight of the Earth. Sinnott highlights the ecological dimensions of the text that scholars have ignored or dismissed in the past, and explores how the narrator gives voice to the way in which the Earth functions throughout the story. Integral to her reading of the text is a concern for Earth and matters such as food, famine, death, harvests, grain, day and night and members of the Earth community. Sinnott considers non-human characters as legitimate determining factors in the structuring of the narrative, and recognizes Earth and members of the Earth community as equally valid subjects. By identifying with these aspects of Ruth, Sinnott is able to read the text with new eyes; and by placing special emphasis in how the narrator depicts the natural world, she reinforces how subjects from that world emerge as integral components.

Author : Margaret Daly-Denton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056767939X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John: An Earth Bible Commentary written by Margaret Daly-Denton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Earth Bible Commentary Series suggests how John's Gospel might motivate and resource a Christian response to the ecological crisis. Margaret Daly-Denton shows how aptly Mary Magdalene recognized the risen Jesus as 'the gardener' (Jn 20.15), completing his day's work in the 'garden' of the Earth. The Johannine story of Jesus offers his present day followers a paradigm with considerable potential to inspire Earth care, sustainable living and commitment to eco-justice. The Fourth Evangelist believes that Jesus fulfils the Jewish hope for a restoration envisaged as a return of humankind to Eden. Keeping this theme continually in mind, Daly-Denton reads the gospel with sensitivity to the role of the more-than-human world in the narrative and with particular attention to the scriptural underlay that repeatedly brings this world into the foreground. The commentary begins with an exploration of the memories and associations that the garden setting would have evoked for the intended audience. It then follows the gospel's spiral path that eventually leads to the garden of Mary's encounter. Each chapter concludes by asking how believers might do God's work (Jn 6.28) in today's ecologically damaged world and by offering practical suggestions indicative of the reflection that readers of the commentary will be able to do in their own setting.

Author : Various Authors,
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310294142
Total Pages : 6637 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Bible (NIV) written by Various Authors, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 6637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.

Author : Norbert Lohfink
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451415179
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Qoheleth written by Norbert Lohfink and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new addition to the successful Continental Commentary series is a significant and fresh treatment of Qoheleth (or Ecclesiastes). A famed professor presents a startlingly new translation of this often perplexing book of the Old Testament. Lohfink also argues for a rather different interpretation of the book than one finds elsewhere. Rather than reading the book's perspective as depressing, lost, or cynical, he highlights the elements of joy and balance. The volume includes introduction, new translation, commentary, parallel passages, bibliography, and indexes.

Author : R. Norman Whybray
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567193942
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecclesiastes written by R. Norman Whybray and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecclesiastes is at once a strange book and a modern one, at once enigmatic and curiously familiar. Here we find a man detached from the world and yet intensely aware of it, setting down in writing his thoughts about human life. Yet from the very first his readers have been unable to agree about his basic attitude to life. Whybray sorts through the options by asking questions regarding the author, his times, his language and his ideas.

Author : Edward Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.Q9/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes written by Edward Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commentary on Ecclesiastes written by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: