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Biblical scholar Michael V. Fox seeks to address the complexities and so-called “absurdities” of Ecclesiastes, or “Qohelet,” the Hebrew word for the preacher. He focuses not on resolving the contradictions, but on seeing them as part of the overall structure and meaning of the book. Fox gives an in-depth introduction to the historical exegetical studies of Ecclesiastes and explains his own...

The meaning in several occurrences, in addition to those listed as ambiguous, is debatable, but there are enough clear examples of each usage to establish the existence of all of them. §5.2 Qohelet’s language With most commentators, I treat Qohelet’s Hebrew as transitional between classical BH and mishnaic Hebrew.1a Against Dahood’s theory that Qohelet was written in Phoenician orthography (Dahood 1952, 1962), the arguments of Gordis (pp. 402f.), Ginsberg (pp. 42–49), Piotti (1977a), and Whitley
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