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The Bible is both the inspired word of God for his people, whether in biblical times or for the church today, and a fully human book, written in a variety of cultural settings. The Apollos Old Testament Commentary aims to take with equal seriousness the divine and human aspects of Scripture. This volume by Daniel J. Estes and Daniel J. Estes expounds the books of Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs...

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
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