Breakpoint: Ecclesiastes on X: Why we’re not satisfied, ... visit almost any old graveyard and it will be full of tombstones with only one year inscribed for both birth and death.

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.

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 ...

The name Ecclesiastes is derived from the Greek translation of the Hebrew Qohelet. ... however, one still has the possibility for pleasure in life, whereas death is the end of all possibilities….