Thomas Bolin, Ecclesiastes and the Riddle of Authorship. New York: Routledge, 2017.Excerpt:
In short, Bolin argues that the well-known interpretive problems posed by the book of Ecclesiastes, and in particular the shadowy figure of Qohelet, are generative. Namely, they have provoked interpreters over the centuries to construct a seemingly endless series of authorial portraits that they then use to exclude certain interpretive possibilities and to ground their reading of the text. ...
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