The Book of Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) and the Path to Joyous Living

This is the first full-length study of Ecclesiastes using methods of philosophical exegesis specifically those of the modern French philosophers Levinas and Blanchot. T. A. Perry opens up new horizons in the philosophical understanding of the Hebrew Bible offering a series of meditations on its general spiritual outlook. Perry breaks down Ecclesiastes''s motto all is vanity and returns vanity to its original concrete meaning of breath the breath of life. This central and forgotten teaching of Ecclesiastes leads to new areas of breath research related both to environmentalism and breath control.