Ecclesiastes

by Roger Norman Whybray

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.

88 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Roger Norman(R.N.) Whybray Biblical Scholar

Reviews

[Cameron Barham]

“Ecclesiastes is a book which invites the reader to eschew prejudice and passion and to think for himself. And this makes it a unique phenomenon in the Old Testament.”, p. 13