Background
Miller, Douglas B. was born on April 12, 1955 in Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States. Son of Wilbur W. and LeAnna M. Miller.
(This work defends a new thesis for the word "hebel", a wo...)
This work defends a new thesis for the word "hebel", a word with which the interpreters of Ecclesiastes have struggled (traditionally meaning "vanity", but literally meaning "vapour"). The positions adopted by interpreters have influenced their interpretation of the book as a whole. This book presents a methodology for metaphor and symbol, then demonstrates how Qohelet employs hebel in the book with referents related to "insubstantiality", "transience" and "foulness". These referents are incorporated into a single, multivalent vapour-symbol by which Qohelet represents human experience. The study provides significant substantiation for the "realist" position on Ecclesiastes: Qohelet does not declare life to be entirely meaningless or absurd, but rather says that life is filled with limitations and complications and counsels his readers how to make the most of that life. The study concludes with a proposal for the rhetoric of Ecclesiastes in light of the symbol thesis.
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Paperback. Octavo. Some unobtrusive pen notes in sections 1 and 2. Otherwise, clean and sound. Very Good. ISBN: 0931464862.
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( Students of Akkadian will find this handy collection of...)
Students of Akkadian will find this handy collection of basic information to be the ideal companion through their years of study. Though this handbook is not a replacement for the standard reference works, it summarizes all the basic resource materials needed for the study of Akkadian. Included are the following: miscellaneous helps, paradigms of nouns and verbs, a glossary of important proper nouns, an index of logograms, a sign list with complete sign values, and much more. What is new in this revised and expanded edition: — An expanded list of common abbreviations — A thorough bibliography of important reference works in ten categories, including websites — Part One: Additional and more thorough lists, including dialect information for conjunctions, prepositions, and particles — Part Two: Additional nominal and verbal paradigms — Part Three: Glossary expanded and updated, content thoroughly documented and cross-referenced — Part Four: Expanded list of logograms — Part Five: Complete list of graphic signs as found in Borger s Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon, tagged by his new numbering system, and cross-referenced to the Deimel system; sign information aligned with MZL for logographic values and with MZL and Das akkadische Syllabar for syllabic values; graphic sign images now included with the list of determinatives; two new indexes — Can now be used alongside all major grammars of Akkadian — A more attractive format — All data checked against the latest published reference works
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Miller, Douglas B. was born on April 12, 1955 in Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States. Son of Wilbur W. and LeAnna M. Miller.
Bachelor, Oral Roberts University, 1977. Master of Divinity, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 1988. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1996.
Professor biblical and religious studies Tabor College, Hillsboro, Kansas, since 1993.
(This work defends a new thesis for the word "hebel", a wo...)
( Students of Akkadian will find this handy collection of...)
(Paperback. Octavo. Some unobtrusive pen notes in sections...)
Member of Catholic Biblical Association, Society Biblical Literature.