Abstract

LAI, Barbara M. Leung. Making Some Sense of the Paradox: Polyphony, Conflicting Ideologies, Dialogism, and the Dialectic Dynamics of Ecclesiastes. Old testam. essays [online]. 2021, vol.34, n.3, pp.902-914. ISSN 2312-3621.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2021/v34n3a14.

Rooted in the rubrics of "Text and Reading, "¹ this article correlates some of the new advances in the study of Ecclesiastes in the recent past.² Employing four intentionally hammered out reading strategies-reading polyphonically; reading "cross the grains"; reading dialectically and reading narrativally, it seeks to demonstrate that the integration of four perspectival readings will enrich the meaning-significance of the book. Moreover, it aims at a proposal that would make some sense of this paradoxical book.

Keywords : Polyphony; Dialogism; "dialogic Truth; Dialectic; Narratival Hermeneutics; Reading "cross The Grains"; (cross-graining).

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