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 ...

By taking the spiritual lives of migrants as the starting point for her examination, Boursier lifts the forgotten fleshiness ...

When we learn that “happiness can’t be taken by the world because it wasn’t given by the world,” we can laugh at the vanities and absurdities that might otherwise drive us to despair. And we can ...

“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 ...

(Ecclesiastes 11:9-10) 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 ...

We 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? What if it means ...

It’s the odd little book of Ecclesiastes, also known as Qoheleth, the Hebrew title, after its primary speaker. Subscribe. Read our latest issue or browse back issues. One rarely hears Ecclesiastes in ...

The Catholic (i.e., the original canon) settled upon in the 4th century is contains 73 books including Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach (i.e., Ecclesiasticus), Baruch, and 1 and 2 Maccabees ― what ...