The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, October 1st, 2007
DOUG Ingram, Ambiguity in Ecclesiastes (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 431; London/New York: Clark, 2006). Pp. xii + 299. $155.
This timely and engaging study is a revision, with updated bibliography, of a 1996 University of Stirling Ph.D. dissertation supervised by Keith Whitelam. Ingram holds that the Book of Ecclesiastes is by design fundamentally ambiguous. Ambiguity, he observes at the outset, describes indeterminacy of meaning; yet meaning itself is an ambiguous and critically contested term. Therefore, in chap. 1,1. surveys the status of textual meaning and authorial int...
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