Description:
Examines the book of Ecclesiastes, arguing that it may have served as a provocative voice for, or as a catalyst to, the emergence of apocalyptic eschatology and later sectarian conflicts within Judaism in the mid-Second Temple period.
Brief description: Kumiko Takeuchi is a fellow with Global Scholars in Olathe, Kansas.
Review Quotes:
"Takeuchi has offered an insightful, well-researched exploration of a book that continues to vex readers and scholars. The author is to be commended for the ways in which she connects disparate elements of Ecclesiastes and for her insistence that the frame narrative be taken seriously as influencing any final reading of the book."
--Brandon R. Grafius Bulletin for Biblical Research