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Coping With Change - Ecclesiastes is unavailable, but you can change that!

Ecclesiastes is a book filled with good news for those struggling to make sense of what is happening in life. Why does man madly pursue one thing and then another without meaning? True joy comes from the Lord himself, and for the one who has learned to fear God and keep his commandments, all of life holds purpose and delight. In Coping with Change, noted theologian Walter Kaiser mines the riches...

context for the theology of Qoheleth.27 Thus we must conclude that Solomon was aware of and was consciously writing in the stream of antecedent theology and revelation as found in the books known to the Jews prior to the monarchy. His “cosmopolitan” and “universal” stance was deliberately taken to: (1) match the special genre he had decided to use as a medium for his work; (2) gain as wide an audience among the Gentiles as possible; and (3) set a new standard of godliness for potential proselytes and