Vain Rhetoric: Private Insight and Public Debate in Ecclesiastes

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Christianson, Eric S | Copyright information

GARY D. SALYER, Vain Rhetoric: Private Insight and Public Debate in Ecclesiastes (JSOTSup 327; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001). Pp. 443. £60, $95.

Salyer's impressive tome is the outgrowth of a 1997 Ph.D. thesis undertaken at the Graduate Theological Union and the University of California at Berkeley. While not dismissing any diachronic approach to Qoheleth's words, S. argues early on for the particular appropriateness of synchronic approaches to a text that offers only the...

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