{"id":5298,"date":"2014-11-02T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbu.edu\/seminary\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2022-12-06T00:52:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:52:13","slug":"book-ecclesiastes-tremper-longman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbu.edu\/seminary\/book-ecclesiastes-tremper-longman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Ecclesiastes, Tremper Longman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the title to order from Amazon; your purchase helps 海角原创. You can also click on the button to view the full Pastor&#8217;s Library<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/mn\/search\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwmbbcedusem-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3A1845507762&amp;field-keywords=1845507762&amp;url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;ajr=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/mn\/search\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwmbbcedusem-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3A0802823661&amp;field-keywords=0802823661&amp;url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;ajr=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Book of Ecclesiastes. New International Commentary on the Old Testament<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/mn\/search\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwmbbcedusem-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3A1845507762&amp;field-keywords=1845507762&amp;url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;ajr=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwmbbcedusem-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. Longman, Tremper, III.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ecclesiastes is one of the most fascinating &#8212; and hauntingly familiar &#8212; books of the Old Testament. The sentiments of the main speaker of the book, a person given the name Qohelet, sound incredibly modern. Expressing the uncertainty and anxieties of our own age, he is driven by the question, &#8220;Where can we find meaning in the world?&#8221;But while Qohelet&#8217;s question resonates with readers today, his answer is shocking. &#8220;Meaningless,&#8221; says Qohelet, &#8220;everything is meaningless.&#8221; How does this pessimistic perspective fit into the rest of biblical revelation? In this commentary Tremper Longman III addresses this question by taking a canonical-Christocentric approach to the meaning of Ecclesiastes.\u00a0Longman first provides an extensive introduction to Ecclesiastes, exploring such background matters as authorship, language, genre, structure, literary style, and the book&#8217;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 &#8212; a prologue (1:1-11), Qohelet&#8217;s autobiographical speech (1:12-12:7), and an epilogue (12:8-14) &#8212; and that the frame narrative provided by prologue and epilogue is the key to understanding the message of the book as a whole.&#8221; -Amazon.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are some other books on Ecclesiastes that might interest you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/mn\/search\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwmbbcedusem-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3A1845507762&amp;field-keywords=1845507762&amp;url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;ajr=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ecclesiastes: The Philippians of the Old Testament <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwmbbcedusem-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.\u00a0Barrick, William D.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/mn\/search\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwmbbcedusem-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3A0805401148&amp;field-keywords=0805401148&amp;url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;ajr=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs. 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