RESPONSE TO “ECCLESIASTES FROM THE OUTSIDE IN”

Shead goes on to say on p. 35 that ‘the sticking point with many scholars is the apparent lack of support for the sentiments of 12:13f. in the body of Ecclesiastes, and so claims are made that in 12:13 the epilogist is “putting forward an ideal which has been developed elsewhere and which is not a concern of Ecclesiastes”’. ................
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