Ecclesiastes Through The Centuries

Over the centuries, Ecclesiastes has influenced numerous aspects of life and thought." Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries" assesses the diverse effects of the book on culture in religion, art, and social contexts.

Ecclesiastes shaped the life of European abbeys of the middle ages. For Renaissance thinkers it provided a sceptical line of inquiry weighted with the disquieting authority of Scripture. It has inspired the imaginations of artists, musicians, and poets from the Renaissance to the present day. The influence of Ecclesiastes on literature has engaged authors as diverse as Bacon, Donne, Eliot, Hardy, Melville, and numerous Elizabethan poets. This commentary traces these influences as well as the fascinating range of Jewish and Christian readings. The result is an informative and broad-ranging approach to the impact of this book through the centuries that will engage all those studying the Bible.

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Over the centuries, Ecclesiastes has influenced a number of diverse areas of life and thought. "Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries" assesses the fascinating effects of the book on the culture of the various times in religion, art, and social thought.
Explores a fascinating range of Jewish and Christian readings
Features engaging and unusual examples from art, music, literature and history: from Thackeray and Orwell, to Salvador Dali's Illustrated Bible, to the inflammatory exposition of Ecclesiastes at the funeral of Queen Mary
This is the third Old Testament volume published in the innovative "Blackwell Bible Commentaries" series
The series is supported by a website at www.bbibcomm.net