William P. Brown

The Interpretation commentary series has been consistently good as a means of looking at texts in terms of how to apply them in preaching contexts; they don’t get too bogged down in the weeds of the details, and while the commentary is contextually informed, they generally focus on application.

Brown’s volume on Ecclesiastes is a middle-of-the-road, useful consideration of Ecclesiastes. He considers the claim of Solomonic authorship as a later fiction but with deliberate intent: to frame show more the exhortation in terms of the great king who would have had experience others did not. Throughout the work he establishes parallels with the Epic of Gilgamesh and many of the similar wisdom based lessons found therein.

He does not treat the text with extreme piety and finds a good place for it in the wisdom literature tradition as well as in application and exhortation in Christ.

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In Scripture we are introduced to different ways of picturing God and the creation God made. This study portrays these diverse images through biblical perspectives on creation--celebrating creation in Psalms and Genesis, reflecting on the "wilds" of creation in Proverbs, and anticipating the hope of new creation in Romans and Revelation.

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