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Five Festal Garments: Christian Reflections on the Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther is unavailable, but you can change that!

These five Old Testament books, traditionally known simply as “the Scrolls,” are among the most neglected parts of the Christian Bible. In Judaism, the Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther were eventually adopted as lectionary readings for five of the major festivals. In Christian tradition, however, no consensus has emerged about their proper use. Each book presents...

how he does so. It certainly appears to play a foundational role in his thinking.35 Indeed it may not be going too far to assert with C. C. Forman (1956: 263) that ‘the early chapters of Genesis represent the single most important influence on the ideas of Ecclesiastes regarding the nature and destiny of man, the character of human existence, and the fact of God’.36 The theology of Ecclesiastes is grounded firmly in traditional Israelite beliefs about such matters. What is particularly significant
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