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Koheleth: The Man and His World - A Study of Ecclesiastes

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This work contains a Hebrew text of Kohelet, an English translation and Gordis commentary. Gordis divides the work into theme -units and provides commentary on each. He makes the ideas of 'Koheleth' clear, however paradoxical they are.
For me 'Koheleth' has always been the most profound statement on human life imaginable. The man who advocates enjoying life on earth, while at the same time acknowledging the vanity of it, who rejects the world - to- come, and the justice of this world while urging our obedience to G-d gives a description and presciption of human life which it seems to me is not vanity of vanities, but instead for human beings so long as they are on this earth, eternal truth.

Robert Gordis has written a complete, if not definitive, commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes. He was Professor of the Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America for eight years and an adjunct professor of religion at Columbia University. He gives Ecclesiastes a thorough literary, philosophical, and stylistic analysis against the background of both Hebrew and Near Eastern Wisdom literature in relation to Greek and Egyptian wisdom.