rejoicing (1 Kgs 4:20). Astonishingly, however, joy is suppressed as a significant positive theme of the book by those who cannot square it with ‘meaninglessness’, essentially marginalizing it even though it persistently appears as a key conclusion to Qoheleth’s observations. Yet there are those who hear Qoheleth and his resonant call to joy; for example, Klopfenstein (1972), R. K. Johnston (1976), Witzenrath (1979), Whybray (1982, 1989), Ogden (1987) and, a bit more tentatively, Pinçon (2008). Qoheleth