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Qoheleth was primarily concerned with life's "coherence," which depends on predictable and reliable patterns in life that render it sensible, yet he also addressed life's "purpose" and "significance."
- Arthur J Keefer
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
Qoheleth was primarily concerned with life's "coherence," which depends on predictable and reliable patterns in life that render it sensible, yet he also addressed life's "purpose" and "significance."
- TF Leong
Mar 27, 2019 · Many readers of the Book of Ecclesiastes have concluded that Qohelet (the 'Preacher') teaches that life 'under the sun' is meaningless or worthless. The aim of this paper is to...
- Callie Joubert
Qoheleth — “This is the Book of man ‘under the sun’, reasoning about life; it is the best man can do, with the knowledge that there is a Holy God, and that He will bring everything into judgment. . . Inspiration sets down accurately what passes, but the conclusions and reasonings are, after all, man’s.”(14)
Sep 11, 2019 · Qoheleth was primarily concerned with life’s “coherence,” which depends on predictable and reliable patterns in life that render it sensible, yet he also addressed life’s “purpose” and “significance.”
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Qoheleth is skeptical in his intent, but affirmative in his intentionality. 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. Qoheleth need not be considered2
