The new international commentary on the Old Testament </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> <partName>The book of Ecclesiastes</partName> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Longman III, Tremper</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">(1952-...)</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">0:5</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>William B. Eerdmans</publisher> <dateIssued>1998</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">0 e</languageTerm> </language> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">ng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>306tr.</extent> <extent>Hardcover</extent> <extent>24cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Longman first provides an extensive introduction to Ecclesiastes, exploring such background matters as authorship, language, genre, structure, literary style, and the book's theological message. He argues that the author of Ecclesiastes is not Solomon, as has been traditionally thought, but a writer who adopts a Solomonic persona. In the verse-by-verse commentary that follows, Longman helps clarify the confusing, sometimes contradictory message of Ecclesiastes by showing that the book should be divided into three sections -- a prologue (1:1-11), Qohelet's autobiographical speech (1:12-12:7), and an epilogue (12:8-14) -- and that the frame narrative provided by prologue and epilogue is the key to understanding the message of the book as a whole.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Tremper Longman III</note> <subject> <topic>Bible -- OT -- Ecclesiastes -- Commentaries</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">223.8077</classification> <classification authority="ddc">T791-I25</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780802823663</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/1/20/z3124150044124_c7998a3d10d1a44effaaca24130f6196.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/1/20/z3124150044124_c7998a3d10d1a44effaaca24130f6196.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2022-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119070452.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>