Sara Japhet and Robert B. Salters, two highly respected scholars’ editing and translation of Rashbam’s commentary on Qoheleth (also spelled Kohelet, Ecclesiastes in English) is excellent.

Years ago, when I told my young son about a Bible commentary I was writing, he paused for a minute and then dryly commented, “So it’s a book about a book.” A humbling but apt assessment! If a Bible ...

In Koren’s threefold cord of commentaries on Kohelet, seasons of students have been given interpretive riches with which to sharpen their thinking as they turn the pages of the musings of a ...

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).

In Ecclesiastes 11:4-6, Solomon tells us, “Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they ...

Ecclesiastes is a controversial book. It has radical ideas that are contrary to today’s Orthodox Judaism. It contains verses that seem to contradict other verses. The opening two verses and at ...

If Mr. Glenn still contends that Solomon is referring in Ecclesiastes 10:2 to the "political right" in 400 B.C., 2,200 years BEFORE anyone knew what the "political right" even mean - he is in ...