On a first pass through, Ecclesiastes can seem nihilistic. When Solomon advocates that a person “should eat and drink and ...

Like Proverbs, the Book of Ecclesiastes belongs to the category of wisdom literature, a description of which was given by the present writer in CHRISTIANITY TODAY (Oct. 26, 1959). The interested ...

I have always wanted to see the look on Qoheleth’s face. An innovative thespian on a spiritual quest recently gave me that chance. A colleague from the theater department at my university had told me ...

Is it still possible today to be a happy person? By happiness I mean still searching for fulfillment in our lives? If not, then why? Is it because of the normal challenges of aging let alone surviving ...

A bunch of readers rebuked me for calling Ecclesiastes a Buddhist book. I don’t know much about Buddhism—I’m no “JewBu“—and I may have made the classic ignoramus mistake of assuming any vaguely ...

Angel (Maimonides, Spinoza, and Us) successfully parses excerpts from the biblical books of Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, and the Song of Songs to present a traditional but intellectually honest approach to ...

As a biblical scholar, whenever I’ve been asked in recent days what scripture has to say in our present time of crisis, I have tended to refer people to the treasure trove of the Psalms, those prayers ...

When Hamas savagely attacked Israel last October 7, artist Avner Moriah, like the rest of the country, was in a state of disbelief, numbed to the point of being unable to begin illuminating the Book ...