Where is life going? (Qo 3.18-21)
Abstract
The book of Ecclesiastes or Qohelet is possibly the most “scandalous” text of the Old Testament (Ravasi). In this writing, the evident questioning of the sapiential tradition of Israel gathers the Hellenistic tendencies of its time within a dialogue with the Ancient Near East’s Semitic world. Our purpose is to analyze the human condition of finiteness and limitation in Qo 3,18-21 which interrogates future hopes, but focuses the value of life in the present. Death, for the book of Ecclesiastes, is a plea for life and a goal that is constructed in the fullness of every human history.
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