William P. Brown
Autor de Ecclesiastes
Sobre El Autor
William P. Brown is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia, Other books of his include The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder and the Interpretation Bible Commentary volume on Ecclesiastes.
Series
Obras de William P. Brown
Character in Crisis: A Fresh Approach to the Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament (1996) 139 copias
Character and Scripture: Moral Formation, Community, and Biblical Interpretation (2002) — Editor — 48 copias
The Ten Commandments: The Reciprocity of Faithfulness (Library of Theological Ethics) (2004) — Editor — 44 copias
"And God Saw That It Was Good" : Essays on Creation and God in Honor of Terrence E. Fretheim (2006) 4 copias
Interpretation - Essays on Bible and Theology (A Journal of Bible and Theology, 51, 1 [Jan 1997]) 1 copia
The Ten Commandments- The Reciprocity of Faithfulness by Brown,William P.. [2004] Paperback (2004) 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Character Ethics and the Old Testament: Moral Dimensions of Scripture (2007) — Contribuidor — 38 copias
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Brown’s volume on Ecclesiastes is a middle-of-the-road, useful consideration of Ecclesiastes. He considers the claim of Solomonic authorship as a later fiction but with deliberate intent: to frame the exhortation in terms of the great king who would have had experience others did not. Throughout the work he establishes parallels with the Epic of Gilgamesh and many of the similar wisdom based lessons found therein.
He does not treat the text with extreme piety and finds a good place for it in the wisdom literature tradition as well as in application and exhortation in Christ.
A worthwhile commentary for consideration.… (más)