Qoheleth: The Ironic Wink

Subject Index

Abaddon, 15 Adapa, 76 Admonition of Ipuwer, 30 agnosticism, 102, 141n9 Akabya ben Mahalel, 66 allegory, 77–78 Alsheikh, Moshe ben Hayyim, 15–16 anagrams, 2, 11–12 Anat, 75–76,139n26 Ani, Instruction of, 56 Anksheshonky, 30, 109 anonymity, 13–14 apkallu (umannu), 15–16, 121n11 apocalyptic texts, 21, 135n41, 139n32 Apocrypha, 52 Apsu, 63 Aqhat, 75–76 Aqiba, 66 Aristotle, 7–8, 111 asceticism, 6, 38, 114 Auerbach, Erich, 66 authorship, 18 Babylonian Theodicy, The, 19, 141n14, 147n63 Bel and the Dragon, 57 Ben Sira, 6, 16–18, 38–39, 44, 51–52, 77, 87, 95, 97–98, 107 birth, mystery of, 66–67, 110–11 Blesilla, 112 Bohr, Niels, 27 Booth, Wayne C., 7 bread, 38, 89, 108–9 Buddha, Gautama, 6 bureaucracy, 55–56 Camus, Albert, 5, 13 catalogs, 72–73 Cathcart, Kevin, 110 Cerberus, 1 chance, 29, 53, 74–75 Charon, 1 commerce, 74 corrupt heart, 62 cosmogony, 16, counselors, 24 creation myth, 16, 63 cryptogram, 11–12 culture, 59 Danel, 75 Darius, 51 Darwin, Charles, 95 death, 3, 15, 20, 75–81, 92–93, 104, 113, 123n28, 137n37, 142n34 deceit, 9 derash, 53 desire, 50 Dialogue between a Master and a Slave, 30–31 diary, 28 Diodorus Siculus, 78 divine image, 100 divine name, 13 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 70 dreams, 5, 36 Subject Index 168 | Subject Index economy, 54–55, 103–5 editorial additions, 26–27 egoism, 18–19 Ellul, Jacques, 5 Eloquent Peasant, Tale of the, 30 elusive essence, 33–48 Emar (Tell Meskene), 3 empirical thinking, 7, 60–69 Enkidu, 90 Enoch, 79 enjoyment, 20, 82–92, 131n54 Epicurus, 3 essence, elusive, 33–48 ethos, 22 failed prophecies, 14 family, 55–56 fate, 71, 74 fear of YHWH, 15, 67, 97–98 flaws, 93–107 friendship, 6, 110 Fox, Michael V., 30, 36, 47 Frost, Robert, 7 futility, 23, 49, 111, 114 Galileo, 95 Galling, Kurt, 27 Gilgamesh Epic, The, 3, 26, 38–39, 70, 75, 86, 90 God: creator, 39, 60, 63–67; generosity of, 67–68; judge, 63–67; justice of, 125n12, 126n4; mystery of, 137n29; revealer, 112–114; redeemer, 68–69; remote, 105–6 Goethe, Wolfgang von, 28 Gordis, Robert, 5 Gregory of Thaumaturgos, 9 Guggenheim Fellowship, 3 Gurewitch, Morton, 7 hagiagrapha, 22 Harris, Joel Chandler, 30 heart, corrupt, 62 hebel: cognates of, 37; human condition, 42; in Qoheleth, 1, 33–48, 54, 91–94, 101–2, 105, 107, 112–13, 116; outside Qoheleth, 35–36; universal, 36–37 Hegesias, 13 Hellenism, 22, 28, 53, 56–58, 81, 106, 124n8, 125n20 Hemingway, Ernest, 7 Hezekiah’s men, 14 hubris, 47–48 Human Destiny, The (Ballad of Heroes Past), 3 idols, 56–57 Ilimalku, 19 immortality, loss of, 76 inheritance, 104–5 Instruction of Kagemni, 30 intertextuality, 48 Ipuwer, Admonition of, 30 irony, 7–8, 10–11, 40–88, 116, 123–24n37 irrationality, 29–30 Jarman, Mark, 3–4 Jerome, 112 judgment, 98, 125n12 Kaiser, Otto, 42–43 Karitu, 68 Krüger, Thomas, 25 life: brevity of, 33; hatred of, 36, 82, 141n21; span, 33 light, 90–91 loss of immortality, 76 Lucretius, 117–18 Luther, Martin, 9 Luzzatto, Samuel, 112 Maat, 16 Mamonides, 11 Marduk, 63 martyrology, 81 Subject Index | 169 meaning, 5 mediation, 57–58, 68–69 memory, 3, 74, 89–90 midrash, 10, 17, 112, 122n18 Midrash Qoheleth Rabbah, 10 Minor Prophets, 2 misogyny, 29, 105, 124n1 moderation, 6 money, 38, 61, 87, 104 Monimus, 37, 54 myth of creation, 16, 63; of Isis, 16 Nabokov, Vladimir, 20 nature: 17, 113; cyclical, 37, 39; vegetation, 45 Neferti, Prophecy of, 30 new, 3, 6–7, 29, 120n28 New Yorker, 1 Nicholas de Lyra, 112 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 20 O’Hara, John, 113–14 old age, 77–79, 139n30 orality, 51–53, 132–33n8, 133n12 Origen, 112 Pascal, Blaise, 6, 20–21, 28 Perry, Theodore, 25 peshat, 33 pesher, 20 politics, 55–56 portion, 54, 80, 85, 90 Potok, Chaim, 20 prayer, 44–46, 50, 55, 68 profit, 34, 40 prophecy: failed, 14; of Neferti, 30 Psalm 39: affinities with other psalms, 45; exegesis of, 40–48; resemblances to Qoheleth, 45–48; structure of, 40–45 Ptahhotep, 51 Qoheleth’s context, 53–58, 103–5, 134n34, 146n55 Quintilian, 7 Qumran, 96 quotations, 25 race, 100 Rashbam, 112 Rashi, 11 Renan, Ernst, 11 revelation, 99 royal projects, 82 royal testaments, 19–20 Russell, Bertrand, 4 Ruth, 61–62 Sargon, 92 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 4 Schopenhauer, Arthur, 4 Second Esdras (Fourth...