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Wrestling with the timeless enigmas of life, Ecclesiastes is a fruitful resource for preaching and teaching in our postmodern age. Bartholomew’s renowned exegetical and theological skills are evident in his translation and verse-by-verse commentary. This volume also includes an introduction, footnotes on technical details, an appendix in reading and applying the “Preacher’s” message today, and an...

it does his anthropology. What is hebel cannot be grasped—neither physically nor intellectually. It cannot be controlled.”31 Seow’s approach alerts us that how we translate hebel will depend to a significant extent on how we read the book as a whole; thus the hermeneutical spiral of interpretation is unavoidable. Rather than his anthropology, what is at stake in Qohelet’s quest is his epistemology, how we come to know such that we can trust the results of our explorations. Qohelet embarks on a quest
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