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This volume continues the study of intertextuality in Wisdom Literature initiated in Reading Job Intertextually. Like that book, Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually provides the first comprehensive treatment of intertextuality in this wisdom text. Articles address intertextual resonances between Ecclesiastes and texts across the Hebrew canon, along with texts throughout history, from Greek...

Mary Mills The present study brings two individual biblical books—Ecclesiastes and Jonah—into alignment under the heading of inter-textual reading. It does so by engaging both works with the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin concerning polyphonic narration. Each book is explored via this reading lens under a single set of topics which is applied to both works. This methodology leads the reader to reflect on the use of heteroglossia and polyphony as a literary
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