Rabbinic Views of Qohelet
- ISBN-10
- 0773479716
- ISBN-13
- 9780773479715
- Category
- Religion / Judaism / General
- Pages
- 255
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Mellen Biblical Press
- Author
- Ruth N. Sandberg
Description
A study of the variety of Rabbinic interpretations of the Biblical Book of Qohelet with special attention to the ways in which Rabbinic and medieval Jewish Biblical interpretation had to reinterpret the original text's meaning in order to accommodate it to normative Jewish beliefs.
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