Qoheleth Elizabeth M. Bloch-Smith an effective message is paramount

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Qoheleth Elizabeth M. Bloch-Smith an effective message is paramountThis new addition to the successful Continental Commentary series is a significant and fresh treatment of Qoheleth (or Ecclesiastes). A famed professor presents a startlingly new translation of this often perplexing book of the Old Testament. Lohfink also argues for a rather different interpretation of the book than one finds elsewhere. Rather than reading the book's perspective as depressing, lost, or cynical, he highlights the elements of joy and