Seeing What Qohelet Saw: The Structure of Ecclesiastes as Alternating Panels of Observation and Wisdom

If the content of Ecclesiastes is not hard enough on its own the fact that there has been no consensus around the structure adds to its difficulty. With this book there is a strong argument for a structure which draws various threads together and provides a straightforward way to read Ecclesiastes. This book pays close attention to cues in the text and demonstrates how the verb “to see” helps organize the text into panels of Qohelets first-person observation which alternate with panels of his collected wisdom. This book first argues for this structure and then shows it in practice working carefully through the individual units to demonstrate how the structure advocated within the book aids the reader in reading Ecclesiastes.