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Ecclesiastes: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Good advice that stands the test of time—those things we all know are true, tips that help us live the good life—we call wisdom. But, one lifetime is not enough to master the fine art of living. Distilled over centuries, the biblical book of Ecclesiastes offers us the time-tested advice of Israel’s sages. This is the best of wisdom, with echoes of East and West—from Zen and Tao to Merton and...

God’s sovereign activity, illustrated in the determination of events (3:1–15) and the determination of the lot of humanity (3:16–22). Qohelet begins with a thesis statement that encompasses “everything” (lakkōl) and “every matter” (lĕkol-ḥēpeṣ). From the start one gets a hint that the issue is not the human decision to choose the opportune moment to act. The noun zĕmān “season” is ordinarily used of predetermined or appointed time. Elsewhere Qohelet speaks
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