Royal Autobiography in the Book of Qoheleth

Download or read book Royal Autobiography in the Book of Qoheleth written by Yee-Von Koh and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is concerned with the literary genre to which the book of Qoheleth belongs and on which it is modelled. It covers various aspects of literary analysis and the problem of making sense of the book as a whole. It suggests that Qoheleth is best described as a royal autobiography based on the arguments of specific literary features of style and content, resemblance to various kinds of royal autobiographical narrative from elsewhere in the ancient Near East, and the existence of a coherent worldview which the author presents as the fruit of his lifelong observations of the world.