to build.’6 As Gleason Archer put it, the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes writes ‘to convince men of the uselessness of any world view which does not rise above the horizon of man himself.’7 As a result of the biblical author’s careful examination of man’s environment, it ‘leaves us hungry to know God.’8 Christian Ginsburg, the eminent Hebrew scholar who produced one of the most detailed studies of Ecclesiastes, summarized the book in the following words: The design of this book … is to gather