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Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: canon, pocket, ecclesiastes
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1999-10-29
List price: $2.95
ISBN-10: 0802136141
ISBN-13: 9780802136145

The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest influence on English-language literature in history. Now, world-class literary writers introduce the books of the King James Bible in a series of beautifully designed, small-format volumes. The introducers’ passionate, provocative, and personal engagements with he spirituality and the language of the test make the Bible come alive as a stunning work of literature and remind us of its overw

Author: Jacques B. Doukhan
Publisher: Pacific Press Publishing Association
Keywords: vanity, ecclesiastes
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $10.99
ISBN-10: 0816321779
ISBN-13: 9780816321773

Author: Crenshaw
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Keywords: library, testament, old, ecclesiastes, otl
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1987-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0664228038
ISBN-13: 9780664228033

Author: William H Bicksler
Publisher: Xulon Press
Keywords: ecclesiastes, commentary
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-11-18
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 1597816256
ISBN-13: 9781597816250

Author: Phoenix Van Daele
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Keywords: exposed, ecclesiastes
Number of Pages: 90
Published: 2008-09-17
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 1439210934
ISBN-13: 9781439210932

Author: R. Norman Whybray
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Keywords: guides, testament, old, ecclesiastes
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 1989-08-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1850752117
ISBN-13: 9781850752110

Ecclesiastes is at once a strange book and a modern one, at once enigmatic and curiously familiar. Here we find a man detached from the world and yet intensely aware of it, setting down in writing his thoughts about human life. Yet from the very first his readers have been unable to agree about his basic attitude to life. Whybray sorts through the options by asking questions regarding the author, his times, his language and his ideas.

Author: Ray Waddle
Publisher: Upper Room
Keywords: ecclesiastes, wisdom, unconventional, grain
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 083589813X
ISBN-13: 9780835898133

You won’t hear many sermons preached on Ecclesiastes. The plainspoken skepticism and raw weariness, by turns cynical and sensuous, expressed in Ecclesiastes make organized religion uncomfortable. But, as Waddle points out, this book is in the Bible for a reason. The message of this against-the-grain biblical voice offers an emotionally honest view of the meaning of life. "Despite his reputation, Ecclesiastes marks the surprising arrival of consolation and hope," writes Waddle. "This book is about the neglected themes of Ecclesiastes: the goodness of creation; the fingerprints of provid