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| - Ecclesiastes, Kohelet in Hebrew, is a book of the Hebrew Bible. The title derives from the Greek translation of the Hebrew title: קהלת (variously transliterated as Qoheleth, Qohelethh, Kohelet, Koheleth, or even Coheleth). The author represents himself as the son of David, and king over Israel in Jerusalem (1:1, 12, 16; 2:7, 9). The work consists of personal or autobiographic matter, largely expressed in aphorisms and maxims illuminated in terse paragraphs with reflections on the meaning of life and the best way of life. There is a long discourse on death.
- Tremper Longman III. The Book of Ecclesiastes (NICOT). Eerdmans 1998. 306 pp. [description and analysis] Meredith Kline criticizes Longman sharply in "Is Qoheleth Unorthodox?" Kerux 13 (1998). Kline finds Qoheleth orthodox, and consistent with Moses, Paul, and the frame narrator, because Qoheleth describes a different kind of labor and a different kind of joy. Qoheleth describes the world of common grace and common curse, when the wheat and the tares grow together and our work is sometimes in vain.
- Ecclesiastes (often abbreviated Ecc) (Hebrew: קֹהֶלֶת, Kohelet, variously transliterated as Kohelet, Qoheleth, Koheles, Koheleth, or Coheleth) is a book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name derives from the Greek translation of the Hebrew title.
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| - Ecclesiastes (often abbreviated Ecc) (Hebrew: קֹהֶלֶת, Kohelet, variously transliterated as Kohelet, Qoheleth, Koheles, Koheleth, or Coheleth) is a book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name derives from the Greek translation of the Hebrew title. The main speaker in the book, identified by the name or title Qohelet, introduces himself as "son of David, and king in Jerusalem." The work consists of personal or autobiographic matter, at times expressed in aphorisms and maxims illuminated in terse paragraphs with reflections on the meaning of life and the best way of life. The work emphatically proclaims all the actions of man to be inherently "vain", "futile", "empty", "meaningless", "temporary", "transitory", or "fleeting," depending on translation, as the lives of both wise and foolish men end in death. While Qohelet clearly endorses wisdom as a means for a well-lived earthly life, he is unable to ascribe eternal meaning to it. In light of this perceived senselessness, he suggests that one should enjoy the simple pleasures of daily life, such as eating, drinking, and taking enjoyment in one's wife and work, which are gifts from the hand of God. According to Talmud however, the point of Qohelet is to state that all is futile under the sun. One should therefore ignore physical pleasures and put all one's efforts towards that which is above the Sun. This is summed up in the second to last verse: "The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for that is the whole duty of everyone."
- Ecclesiastes, Kohelet in Hebrew, is a book of the Hebrew Bible. The title derives from the Greek translation of the Hebrew title: קהלת (variously transliterated as Qoheleth, Qohelethh, Kohelet, Koheleth, or even Coheleth). The author represents himself as the son of David, and king over Israel in Jerusalem (1:1, 12, 16; 2:7, 9). The work consists of personal or autobiographic matter, largely expressed in aphorisms and maxims illuminated in terse paragraphs with reflections on the meaning of life and the best way of life. There is a long discourse on death.
- Tremper Longman III. The Book of Ecclesiastes (NICOT). Eerdmans 1998. 306 pp. [description and analysis] Meredith Kline criticizes Longman sharply in "Is Qoheleth Unorthodox?" Kerux 13 (1998). Kline finds Qoheleth orthodox, and consistent with Moses, Paul, and the frame narrator, because Qoheleth describes a different kind of labor and a different kind of joy. Qoheleth describes the world of common grace and common curse, when the wheat and the tares grow together and our work is sometimes in vain.
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