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Useless Beauty: Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Contemporary Film. By Robert K. Johnston. (Baker Academic, $17.99). J. argues: "Contemporary movies afford interpreters a deeper access to Ecclesiastes' center of power and meaning than does much of mainstream Old Testament scholarship" (ouch!) and "Conversely, the paradoxes and tensions found in Ecclesiastes can prov...

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