Ecclesiastes repeatedly portrays the futility of a radically purpose-driven life, ... The promise of life without suffering, pain, or death on a re-created planet earth is not required to embrace ...

Thus Ecclesiastes 2:5’s “I made gardens and orchards for myself and planted them with every kind of fruit tree” is an allusion to the Garden of Eden, tilled by Adam.

William Brown cites H. Wheeler Robinson’s observation that Ecclesiastes “has the smell of the tomb about it”—in Qoheleth’s recognition of the all-encompassing nature of death—but adds that it also ...

Chapter 7 This gloomy chapter loses me. Most of Ecclesiastes is nihilistic but pleasure-seeking. But here it dives into the black hole. The day of death is better than the day of birth.

Ecclesiastes reminds me that none of that matters. It all fades. It’s all an illusion. Wait long enough, and all that remains are the timeless things that can’t be quantified.

Like Proverbs, the Book of Ecclesiastes belongs to the category of wisdom literature, a description of which was given by the present writer in CHRISTIANITY TODAY (Oct. 26, 1959).

“Kohelet, The Man and his World, A Study of Ecclesiastes,” by Robert Gordis, ... for he wrote “I find woman more bitter than death, for her heart is full of traps and snares” (7:26).

The Book of Ecclesiastes goes to great lengths to drive home the point that there is ... Rituals of death can remind us of America’s “new birth of freedom”—and our rebirth and renewal ...

Sir, – In response to Patsy McGarry'sarticle on the Old Testament reading from the Book of Ecclesiastes, (July 22nd), I respectfully suggest he desist from attending funerals in the future. As a ...