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- Title
How Deterministic is Qohelet? A New Reading of the Appendix to the Catalogue of Times.
- Authors
Samet, Nili
- Abstract
This paper examines the message of Qohelet's Catalogue of Times and its interpretive appendix. Scholars disagree on the extent to which this unit deviates from the traditional free-will theology of the Bible. The paper presents a fresh reading of the passage, which sheds new light on the problem of determinism in Qohelet. Beginning by a novel delineation for the unit, it then suggests fresh solutions for the main exegetical cruxes of the passage (3:14, 15, 17), and finally presents an innovative, somewhat radical, understanding of Qohelet's approach towards the problem of free will.
- Subjects
BIBLE. Ecclesiastes; WISDOM literature (Bible); WISDOM (Biblical personification); DIDACTIC literature; FREE will &; determinism
- Publication
Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 2019, Vol 131, Issue 4, p577
- ISSN
0044-2526
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/zaw-2019-4004