1979
DOI: 10.1515/9783110846539
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Polar Structures in the Book of Qohelet

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“…Qohelet would therefore scoff at the free-will theodicy, not because his metaphysics involve determinism, but because for him natural and metaphysical evil are not all due to human moral evil. Although God has appointed a time for every matter and for every work (3:17), the outline of opposites in 3:1-9 presupposes not determinism but simply amounts to an acknowledgment of opposites within the human condition (see Loader 1979). Qohelet will also find Leibniz's idea that we live in the best of all possible worlds ridiculous, given that according to him it is best never to have been born (4:1-3), even though God made everything beautiful in its time (3:11).…”
Section: Qohelet and The Problem Of Evilmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Qohelet would therefore scoff at the free-will theodicy, not because his metaphysics involve determinism, but because for him natural and metaphysical evil are not all due to human moral evil. Although God has appointed a time for every matter and for every work (3:17), the outline of opposites in 3:1-9 presupposes not determinism but simply amounts to an acknowledgment of opposites within the human condition (see Loader 1979). Qohelet will also find Leibniz's idea that we live in the best of all possible worlds ridiculous, given that according to him it is best never to have been born (4:1-3), even though God made everything beautiful in its time (3:11).…”
Section: Qohelet and The Problem Of Evilmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although the generic Hebrew term for the divine -elohim (with and without the definite article) -appears 40 times in the space of 12 chapters, the actual verses in which it occurs are generally unconnected and haphazardly related (Murphy 1992:17). Complicating the matter are contradictions in much of the book's statements on a variety of issues (see Loader 1979;Fox 1989). This means that stringing together references to the divine in the book does not constitute anything approximating a systematic theology of the book.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…» ou « y a-t-il un avantage et un profit à la sagesse ? » (Hertzberg, 1963 : 192 ; Galling, 1969 : 116 ; Müller, 1978 : 248 ; Loader, 1979 : 64). Pour ceux qui adoptent cette traduction, il s’agit d’une question rhétorique qui implique une réponse négative.…”
Section: Critique Textuelleunclassified
“…I will, on the one hand, keep in mind over-simplification and the interchangeable use of 'joy', 'happiness' and 'pleasure' in scientific (Fan et al 2014), popular literature (Altman 2012;Lambert 2014) while taking into account the work conducted on Qohelet's polar structure (Loader 1979). On the other hand, I will carefully avoid 'flattening out the contours of the book'.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%