Are Women Stronger than Death?: Qohelet does not Think so
In 1978 N. Lohfink proposed translating mar in Qoh 7,26 as 'strong' rather than 'bitter'. The majority of scholars did not follow him but continued to take the traditional view that mar means bitter here and have consequently concluded that Qoheleth was a misogynist. This article...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
2021
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Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
Year: 2021, Volume: 97, Issue: 1, Pages: 91-104 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Kohelet 7,26
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/ Starch
/ Death
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament NBE Anthropology |
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| Summary: | In 1978 N. Lohfink proposed translating mar in Qoh 7,26 as 'strong' rather than 'bitter'. The majority of scholars did not follow him but continued to take the traditional view that mar means bitter here and have consequently concluded that Qoheleth was a misogynist. This article gives additional arguments (on the basis of biblical and extrabiblical parallels) in support of Lohfink’s theory. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1423 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/ETL.97.1.3289147 |