Ecclesiastes: One Word, Thirty-Eight Times
A guided reading of the book of Ecclesiastes
Twelve scenes about a book a Russian novelist returned to in his spiritual crisis, a single Hebrew word, *hevel*, that appears thirty-eight times and holds the entire book up, a Latin translation that changed how the West reads the text, and the most unexpected close in all of wisdom literature.
This journey is read in full inside Hesed.
Chapters.
IWhen Tolstoy Returned to Ecclesiastes·
IIWho Wrote Ecclesiastes (Probably Not Solomon)·
IIIQohelet, The One Who Convenes·
IVThe Word That Appears Thirty-Eight Times·
VWhat Hevel Means·
VIVanitas, The Translation Problem·
VIIFor Everything There Is a Season·
VIIIFive Lives Qohelet Tried·
IXRemember Your Creator in the Days of Your Youth·
XZakhar, Remember·
XIThe Conclusion of the Matter·
XIIWhat Tolstoy Found·
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