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Ecclesiastes: A Mentor Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Ecclesiastes, part of the wisdom literature of the Bible, can be a perplexing maze to interpret and teach. Full of apparent contradictions and much-debated Hebrew, the theme focuses on the gritty realities of life ‘under the sun.’ Richard Belcher approaches this book with the depth and care it needs, presenting solid guidance on the intricacies of interpretation—alongside continual...

‘world’ or ‘love of the world,’53 a meaning that is attested in later Hebrew, but not in Biblical Hebrew.54 Fox wants to emend ʿôlām to the word ʿāmāl (‘toil’), which would mean that this toil is in the heart and so should be understood as a mental labor, which becomes an arduous task to attempt to understand what God has brought to pass.55 Although one can see how the switching of two Hebrew consonants could take place, there is no manuscript evidence for this emendation of the text. Another common
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