Bible Review

R. Norman Whybray, “Qoheleth, Preacher of Joy,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 23 (1982), pp. 87–98, and his recent commentary: Ecclesiastes, New Century Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989).

James A. Loader (Polar Structures in the Book of Qohelet, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 152 [Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1979]) works out an elaborate theory of binary opposites within the whole book.

Michael V. Fox, “Frame-Narrative and Composition in the Book of Qohelet,” Hebrew Union College Annual 48 (1977), pp. 83–106.

Frank Crusemann, “Die unveranderbare Welt. Uberlegungen zur ‘Krisis der Weisheit’ beim Prediger (Kohelet),” in Der Gott der kleinen Leute, ed. Willi Schottroff and Wolfgang Stegemann (Munich, 1979), pp. 80–104. Published in English as The God of the Lowly (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1985).

See Emanuel Tov, “A Modern Textual Outlook Based on the Qumran Scrolls,” Hebrew Union College Annual 53 (1982), pp. 11–27; “Hebrew Biblical Manuscripts from the Judaean Desert: Their Contribution to Textual Criticism,” Journal of Jewish Studies 39 (1988), pp. 5–37.

Cross, “The History of the Biblical Text in light of Discoveries in the Judaean Desert,” Harvard Theological Review 57 (1964), pp. 281–299; Ancient Library, pp. 120–145.

William F. Albright, “New light on Early Recensions of the Hebrew Bible,” Bulletin of American Schoools of Oriental Research 140 (1955), pp. 27–33.

See Shemaryahu Talmon, The World of Qumran from Within (Jerusalem and Leiden: Magnes Press and E. J. Brill, 1989), pp. 71–141.

See Garcia-Martinez, ‘Significado de los Manuscritos de Qumran para el Conocimiento de Jesucristo y del Cristianismo,” Communio 22 (1989), pp. 338–342.

A complete and methodical refutation of the Golb hypothesis is included in Florentino Garcia-Martinez, “A ‘Groningen’ Hypothesis of Qumran Origins and Early History,” to appear in the volume of Revue de Qumran devoted to the Groningen conference proceedings. The ‘Groningen’ hypothesis, however, Will also have to be seriously modified after the publication of MMT.