Qoheleth: Continental Commentaries

This new addition to the successful Continental Commentary series is a significant and fresh treatment of Qoheleth (or Ecclesiastes). A famed professor presents a startlingly new translation of this often perplexing book of the Old Testament. Lohfink also argues for a rather different interpretation of the book than one finds elsewhere. Rather than reading the books perspective as depressing lost or cynical he highlights the elements of joy and balance. The volume includes introduction new translation commentary parallel passages bibliography and indexes.