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Ecclesiastes is an Old Testament book with a long history of diverse and contradictory interpretations. Even basic questions—who wrote the book, when, and for what purpose—perennially plague scholars. The book’s theological message is likewise elusive, hidden in riddles and convoluted trains of thought that twist and turn back upon themselves. In this expert commentary on Ecclesiastes, the...

and work of Christ. I am not attempting to mount an argument here for a so-called Christological or Christocentric reading of Ecclesiastes. I have no real objection to these terms, other than they have sometimes come to represent an approach to Christian hermeneutics that can hold a book like Ecclesiastes at a safe distance rather than engage it. For the gospel to form our grid for understanding Ecclesiastes is not a call to “see Christ” in every verse, or even every passage of the book. This is
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