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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...

Specifically, he will judge them for their youthful enjoyment!”32 However, as Seow notes, For him [Qohelet], the enjoyment of life is both the lot of humanity … and a gift of God.… Human beings are supposed to enjoy life to the full because that is their divinely assigned portion, and God calls one into account for failure to enjoy. Or, as a passage in the Talmud has it: “Everyone must give an account before God of all good things one saw in life and did not enjoy.” … For Qohelet, enjoyment is not
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