Where is Qoheleth coming from? What is he doing in the Bible? What can
he offer us, when his mood and outlook seem so at odds with the rest of
the Bible?
It’s Thursday morning, November 9, 2006. It’s ten after nine. I’m at my desk, working through Ecclesiastes for a book I am to write. The verse I’m working on goes like this: “Better a handful with quietness than two fistfuls with toil and a chasing after wind.”
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