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"Meaningless, meaningless, everything is meaningless." The word "meaningless" (hebel) appears more than 40 times in the book of Ecclesiastes and raises the question why a book that appears to deny meaning or purpose is included in the Bible. Many questions of interpretation as well as relevance surround the book of Ecclesiastes, including indeed the proper translation and understanding of the word hebel. If, after all, the book does examine the question of the meaning of life, what could be more important?The present volume explores Ecclesiastes/Qohelet on many different levels: linguistic, text-critical, theological, historical, and literary. The contributors, chosen from many of the leading and emerging experts on the book, present both the state of the field and their own assessment of the varied interpretive issues of Ecclesiastes. They include scholars, preachers, and philosophers. It should be helpful not only to scholars but also to all who want to study this book seriously.The first section of this volume deals with the history of interpretation. The second section is concerned with issues of history, form, and rhetoric. Section three is about key concepts and passages. The fourth section focuses on the language and grammar of Qohelet. The last section engages practical issues of interpretation. The volume is designed to provide exposure to a variety of readers who seek to engage Qohelet in fresh ways in the twenty-first century-from historians of interpretation to biblical exegetes to linguists to theological students.

Christianity. --- Christianity --- Religions --- Church history --- Bible. --- Chŏndo sŏ (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chŏndosŏ (Book of the Old Testament) --- Coheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ecclesiastes (Book of the Old Testament) --- Eclesiastes (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ekklesīast (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ekklēsiastēs (Book of the Old Testament) --- Koheles (Book of the Old Testament) --- Kohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- Koheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Megilat Kohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- O-que-sabe (Book of the Old Testament) --- Prediger Salomo (Book of the Old Testament) --- Propovednik tsari︠a︡ Solomona (Book of the Old Testament) --- Propovi︠e︡dnik tsari︠a︡ Solomona (Book of the Old Testament) --- Qohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- Qoheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 223.5 --- Prediker. Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) --- Exegese. --- Kohelet. --- Ecclesiastes --- Prediger --- Koh --- Eccles --- Eccle --- Eccl --- Ec --- Qoh --- Qo --- Kohelet --- Qohelet --- Qoheleth --- <> Buch Kohelet --- Prediger (Buch der Bibel) --- <>Ecclesiaste --- <> Qohélet --- קהלת (Buch der Bibel) --- Altes Testament --- Megillot --- Critique, interpretation, etc. --- Propovednik tsari͡a Solomona (Book of the Old Testament) --- Propovi͡ednik tsari͡a Solomona (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bibelauslegung --- Bibelexegese --- Biblische Auslegung --- Bibelinterpretation --- Biblische Exegese --- Schriftauslegung --- Bibelwissenschaft --- Exeget --- Bibel

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This study deals with the question of happiness in the book of Qoheleth, starting with the contemporary debate among modern writers concerning the status of various encouraging statements that emerge out of a general context in which “all is vanity”. The first part of this study describes the current position of research, examining the debated questions. The second part proposes an exegetical and contextual inquiry of the words for happiness, drawn up by these authors. The third part suggests a way of resolving the enigma of happiness, based upon an additional formula of happiness, located at the beginning of the second half of the book. Gradually, a conviction takes shape: happiness does not have the same status in the two parts of the book. If, at first, happiness is presented as the only alternative given by God to help man to hold on when faced with the fleetingness of things in life, it later becomes an art of living, apt to be taught to future generations.

Glück --- Segen --- Happiness in the Bible. --- Kohelet. --- Bible. --- Chŏndo sŏ (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chŏndosŏ (Book of the Old Testament) --- Coheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ecclesiastes (Book of the Old Testament) --- Eclesiastes (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ekklesīast (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ekklēsiastēs (Book of the Old Testament) --- Koheles (Book of the Old Testament) --- Kohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- Koheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Megilat Kohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- O-que-sabe (Book of the Old Testament) --- Prediger Salomo (Book of the Old Testament) --- Propovednik tsari︠a︡ Solomona (Book of the Old Testament) --- Propovi︠e︡dnik tsari︠a︡ Solomona (Book of the Old Testament) --- Qohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- Qoheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Happiness in the Bible

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Readers of texts come from all generations, from different contexts and with different agendas. This book gives a sample of what both ancient and contemporary readers have brought to the book of Ecclesiastes in the quest for illumination of the text and for their own enlightenment, often furnishing their own agenda. Debates over meaning are formed, shaped, and illuminated by the interpreters themselves. Part One looks at ancient interpreters and at their methods of approaching the text. Jewish and Christian interpreters alike sought to find meaning amongst some of the key puzzles of the book: why does the author call himself 'the son of David' and appear to be Solomon when his pen name also seems to be Qoheleth? Why the contradictions in content? How did such an unorthodox book come to be canonized? How did the dualistic contemptus mundi interpretation of the vanity theme perpetuated by Jerome and others come to hold the field for so long? And how did Luther and the reformers seek to rectify that approach? These questions and others are addressed in this book, looking through the lens of past interpretation. Part Two acknowledges our increasing self-awareness of the importance of method in approaching biblical texts and turns to a sample of modern interpretations from familiar reading groups such as the ecologist, the animal theologian, the liberationist, the post-colonialist, and the feminist. It will be seen that different modern approaches often enlighten the interpretation of specific verses within Ecclesiastes and hence that no one method is a wholesale 'solution' to interpretive concerns. -- Publisher.

Apologetics. --- Apologetics --- Apologetics, Missionary --- Christian evidences --- Christianity --- Evidences, Christian --- Evidences of Christianity --- Fundamental theology --- Polemics (Theology) --- Theology, Fundamental --- Religious thought --- Theology --- Evidences --- Bible. --- Chŏndo sŏ (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chŏndosŏ (Book of the Old Testament) --- Coheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ecclesiastes (Book of the Old Testament) --- Eclesiastes (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ekklesīast (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ekklēsiastēs (Book of the Old Testament) --- Koheles (Book of the Old Testament) --- Kohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- Koheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Megilat Kohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- O-que-sabe (Book of the Old Testament) --- Prediger Salomo (Book of the Old Testament) --- Propovednik tsari︠a︡ Solomona (Book of the Old Testament) --- Propovi︠e︡dnik tsari︠a︡ Solomona (Book of the Old Testament) --- Qohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- Qoheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 223.5 --- Prediker. Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) --- Hermeneutik --- Exegese --- RELIGION --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Biblical Studies --- Wisdom Literature. --- Old Testament. --- Bibel --- Ecclesiastes --- Prediger --- Koh --- Eccles --- Eccle --- Eccl --- Ec --- Qoh --- Qo --- Kohelet --- Qohelet --- Qoheleth --- <> Buch Kohelet --- Prediger (Buch der Bibel) --- <>Ecclesiaste --- <> Qohélet --- קהלת (Buch der Bibel) --- Altes Testament --- Megillot --- Propovednik tsari͡a Solomona (Book of the Old Testament) --- Propovi͡ednik tsari͡a Solomona (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bibelauslegung --- Bibelexegese --- Biblische Auslegung --- Bibelinterpretation --- Biblische Exegese --- Schriftauslegung --- Bibelwissenschaft --- Exeget --- Auslegung --- Verstehen --- Interpretation

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Bible OT. Wisdom books. Ecclesiastes --- Hebrew language --- Hébreu (Langue) --- Grammar. --- Grammaire --- Bible. --- Language, style. --- Langue. --- Style. --- Academic collection --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Hébreu (Langue) --- Hebrew --- Language studies --- Grammar --- Chŏndo sŏ (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chŏndosŏ (Book of the Old Testament) --- Coheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ecclesiastes (Book of the Old Testament) --- Eclesiastes (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ekklesīast (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ekklēsiastēs (Book of the Old Testament) --- Koheles (Book of the Old Testament) --- Kohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- Koheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Megilat Kohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- O-que-sabe (Book of the Old Testament) --- Prediger Salomo (Book of the Old Testament) --- Propovednik tsari︠a︡ Solomona (Book of the Old Testament) --- Propovi︠e︡dnik tsari︠a︡ Solomona (Book of the Old Testament) --- Qohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- Qoheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Schoors, Antoon --- Bible. O.T. Ecclesiastes --- Language, style --- Congresses

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Bible OT. Wisdom books. Ecclesiastes --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- 223.5 --- Prediker. Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) --- Bible. --- Chŏndo sŏ (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chŏndosŏ (Book of the Old Testament) --- Coheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ecclesiastes (Book of the Old Testament) --- Eclesiastes (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ekklesīast (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ekklēsiastēs (Book of the Old Testament) --- Koheles (Book of the Old Testament) --- Kohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- Koheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Megilat Kohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- O-que-sabe (Book of the Old Testament) --- Prediger Salomo (Book of the Old Testament) --- Propovednik tsari︠a︡ Solomona (Book of the Old Testament) --- Propovi︠e︡dnik tsari︠a︡ Solomona (Book of the Old Testament) --- Qohelet (Book of the Old Testament) --- Qoheleth (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.