Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually

This volume continues the study of intertextuality in the 'Wisdom Literature' initiated in Reading Job Intertextually (Dell and Kynes, T&T Clark, 2012). Like that book, Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually provides the first comprehensive treatment of intertextuality in this wisdom text. Articles address intertextual resonances between Ecclesiastes and texts across the Hebrew canon, along with texts throughout history, from Greek classical literature to the New Testament, Jewish and Christian interpretation, and existential and Modern philosophy.

As a multi-authored volume that gathers together scholars with expertise on this diverse array of texts, this collection provides exegetical insight that exceeds any similar attempt by a single author. The contributors have been encouraged to pursue the intertextual approach that best suits their topic, thereby offering readers a valuable collection of intertextual case studies addressing a single text.

Will Kynes lectures in Old Testament at St Peter's College, Oxford, UK.

Katharine Dell is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University, UK and Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Oxford, UK

1. Introduction
Katharine Dell and Will Kynes
Part I: Ecclesiastes in Dialogue with the Hebrew Bible
2. Exploring Intertextual Links between Ecclesiastes and Genesis 1–11
Katharine Dell
3. Follow Your Heart and Do Not Say It Was a Mistake:
Qoheleth's Allusions to Numbers 15 and the Story of the Spies
Will Kynes
4. “Better That You Should Not Vow Than That You Vow and Not Fulfill”:
Qoheleth's Use of Textual Allusion and the Transformation of Deuteronomy's Law of Vows
Bernard M. Levinson
5. Qoheleth as Solomon: “For What Can Anyone Who Comes after the King Do?” (Eccl 2:12)
Tremper Longman III
6. Qoheleth and Isaiah in Dialogue
Richard Schultz
7. Polyphonic Narration in Ecclesiastes and Jonah
Mary Mills
8. Of Snakes and Sinners:
An Intertextual Reading of Ba?al ha-lashon in Ecclesiastes 10:11 in Light of ?Ish lashon in Psalm 140:12[11]
Tova Forti
9. “And They Have No Comforter”
Job and Ecclesiastes in Dialogue
Thomas Krüger
10. Intertextuality and Economics:
Reading Ecclesiastes with Proverbs
Milton P. Horne
11. Seeking and Finding in Ecclesiastes and Proverbs
Daniel J. Estes
12. Solomon, Wisdom, and Love
Intertextual Resonance between Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs
Brittany N. Melton
13. The Inner-Textuality of Qoheleth's Monologue
Stuart Weeks

Part II: Ecclesiastes in Dialogue with Texts Throughout History
14. Ecclesiastes in the Intertextual Matrix of Ancient Near Eastern Literature
William H. U. Anderson
15. Ecclesiastes among the Comedians
John Jarick
16. A Reassessment of Sirach's Relationship to Qoheleth:
A Case Study of Qoheleth 3:15 and Sirach 5:3
Bradley C. Gregory
17. Intertextual Connections between the Wisdom of Solomon and Qoheleth
Lester L. Grabbe
18. Wisdom, Apocalypticism and Intertextuality:
The Book of Ecclesiastes and the Sociolect of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Matthew Goff
19. The Intertextuality of Ecclesiastes and the New Testament
Craig G. Bartholomew
20. Qoheleth's Israel in Jerome's Commentarius in Ecclesiasten
Jennie Grillo
21. Ecclesiastes, Augustine's uti/frui Distinction, and Christ as the Waste of the World
Susannah Ticciati
22. Examples of Intertextuality in Ecclesiastes Rabbah:
An Examination of the Book of Psalms in Ecclesiastes Rabbah with Methodological Nuances
Michail Kitsos
23. Remembering in One's Youth
Kierkegaard Reading Ecclesiastes as an Edifying Discourse
Hugh Pyper
24. Ecclesiastes in Dialogue with Modernity:
A Matter of Life and Death
Daniel J. Treier

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