Thus Ecclesiastes 2:5’s “I made gardens and orchards for myself and planted them with every kind of fruit tree” is an allusion to the Garden of Eden, tilled by Adam.

Ecclesiastes has some things to say about COVID-19. The ancient wisdom text urges us to find joy in the limits of the present moment. ... (2:18–21). To add insult to injury, at the end of his ...

In my first semester of college as a classics major, I translated from Latin the opening passage of the ancient book of Ecclesiastes. This wasn’t ever a book I came across in parochial school or ...