This Hebrew manuscript’s text columns have a vertical, wraparound orientation on this 1638 Marian book by Joannes Baptista Posarel, suggesting a large original format (perhaps a segment of a scroll).

Ecclesiastes (in Hebrew, Kohelet, the speaker of most of the book) is a study in contrasts. So controversial that the ancient rabbis considered withdrawing it from circulation, yet it has ...

W e all know the famous line from the Book of Ecclesiastes, a.k.a. Kohelet: “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” But what if we don’t know the line as well as we think?

“To the making of many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh” said Ecclesiastes [Kohelet in Hebrew], traditionally believed to be King Solomon, sometime before his ...

In my first semester of college as a classics major, I translated from Latin the opening passage of the ancient book of Ecclesiastes. This wasn’t ever a book I came across in parochial school or ...