The book has a specific message also for the twentieth century and, as Gordis remarks, Koheleth (the Hebrew for Ecclesiastes) speaks to the modern age across an interval of 2,000 years with the ...

A bunch of readers rebuked me for calling Ecclesiastes a Buddhist book. I don’t know much about Buddhism—I’m no “JewBu“—and I may have made the classic ignoramus mistake of assuming ...

The Gospels do not ask questions about happiness and purpose the way some of Wisdom literature does; they present the concerns of God for the world.

He wrote Ecclesiastes (probably dated 180 BCE), in his senior years. At first glance the book reads like some CEO who reached the epitome of wealth and success and then decides to take a hard and ...

This Sukkot, a new book gives a daring – and beautiful – reassessment of Ecclesiastes In ‘Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living,’ Israeli philosopher Menachem Fisch and American ...

But there’s another book of great moment for our present moment, in which we face the interconnected crises of global pandemic, economic disparity, and racial injustice. It’s the odd little book of ...