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Abbot Isaac assigned the Book of Ecclesiastes for the August 7, 2011, Oblate meeting at St. Leo Abbey. For information about this class contact the Oblate office.
Where to begin and end in reading:
To help in our further reading, here are online resources. The following materials are from many different traditions and theology, please use sound discretion as you read:
Overview and Text:
- Wisdom Books Overview in New American Bible
- Ecclesiastes Overview in New American Bible
- Book of Ecclesiastes NAB
- Several parallel versions
- English Septuagint NETS
Commentary/Outline: Ecclesiastes
Jewish Resources/Explanations
- Sukkot: Rejoice by Happy
- Ecclesiastes
- Ecclesiastes and Feast of Tabernacles/Booths/Sukkot
- PowerPoint of Jewish Feasts by Felix Just, S.J. [if you do not have the PowerPoint program on your computer, you may download a free PowerPoint viewer.
Paraphrase of Ecclesiastes:
From the Vatican:
- The Light of Revelation in the Old Testament -- Blessed JPII 1985
- On Psalm 49[48]:1-13 Blessed JP 2004
- URBI ET ORBI MESSAGE OF POPE BENEDICT XVI EASTER 2009
My Questions on Ecclesiastes:
When Abbot Isaac assigned the Book of Ecclesiastes, we had just finished reading the Book of Job. I thought there might be a connection between the two books and that caused me to have the following questions which I am thinking about now as I begin:
- Do the Books of Job and Ecclesiastes address the same topics, but follow different paths?
- Do both books arrive at the same destination in the end?
- In what sense may the Book of Ecclesiastes be thought of as the first book in the Bible for a secular world?
- Are Job's sufferings futility and emptiness or are they seen that way in the end?
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