Qoheleth: Tirgum u-Pirush hadash/ Qohelet: The Record of the Lecture Given By the Son of David Who Was King in Jerusalem. A new and original translation of the Book of Ecclesiastes
Hardcover
1924 · Berlin
by Aaronson, Lionel
Berlin: Trowitsch & Son, 1924. Hardcover. g. 4to. 100pp. Black cloth with gold lettering to cover. "Vanity of Vanities, sayeth the Lecturer, Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity." One of the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, this work is ascribed to King Solomon. It consists of personal matter with reflections on the meaning of life and the best way of life. The work emphatically proclaims all the actions of man to be inherently "futile" and/or "meaningless," as the lives of both wise and foolish men end in death. While the teacher clearly promotes wisdom for (truncated)