Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living Band Debra
Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living Band Debra How to live a life of wisdom and fulfillment in a far-from-perfect world? Whereas modern readers influenced by the famous declaration "vanity,…
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Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living Band Debra
How to live a life of wisdom and fulfillment in a far-from-perfect world? Whereas modern readers influenced by the famous declaration "vanity, vanity, all is vanity" from the 1611 King James Bible have commonly understood that Qohelet found only futility and hopelessness in human life, Fisch restores the literal meaning, "vapor," to Qohelet's key word, hevel, with implications that reveal Qohelet's path to wisdom and even serenity. Philosopher Menachem Fisch and artist Debra Band together probe Qohelet's inquiry into the value of life "under the sun" in this brilliant work--the first illuminated manuscript of the entire biblical text, the first philosophical analysis tracing the coherent path of this biblical thinker's full argument.
Through linguistic precision and careful unfolding of the book's philosophical argument, Fisch uncovers Qohelet's twin concerns: life is short,