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Sep 11, 2019 · Attending to ongoing debates about the “meaning of life” in Ecclesiastes, this article determines how Qoheleth addressed meaningfulness by drawing on a threefold scheme of definitions for life’s meaning.
- Arthur Keefer
- 2019
Qoheleth says that enjoyment of life “is what I have seen to be good and appropriate (or fitting)” (5:18)—it is the sensible and realistic response to the certainty of death.
Do you wonder if life has any purpose or meaning? Welcome to the book of Ecclesiastes, where artists, scientists, philosophers, monarchs, and theologians in every generation find answers to their questions about the ultimate meaning in life.
May 12, 2020 · Attending to ongoing debates about the meaning of life in Ecclesiastes, this article determines how Qoheleth addressed meaningfulness by drawing on a threefold scheme of definitions for life’s meaning.
Koheleth famously argues that ‘life is futility’ (or ‘vanity’) for a variety of reasons, with this chapter focusing on the three that are most recurrent in the text and have been particularly influential in the Western tradition of philosophy.
- Thaddeus Metz
Furthermore, the predominantly philosophical approach reveals a disinterest in situating Ecclesiastes in history and seeking to understand Qoheleth’s illustrative examples according to their potential historical referents.
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The direction of this interpretive essay suggests that Qoheleth's stance to- ward life has been clouded by commentators unable to break out of their alien (to Qoheleth) work-dominated mind-sets.
