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Article: Encountering Ecclesiastes: A Book for Our Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- November 28, 2006
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Encountering Ecclesiastes: A Book for Our Time.
By James Limburg. Eerdmans, 155 pp., $14.00 paperback.
Qoheleth seems like such a dismal and dark book to many Christians. And indeed, the theme of hevel (vanity), which suggests that life is without substance and is fleeting, runs through this book like a pedal point in an organ composition. But Limburg, emeritus professor of Old Testament at ...