Qoheleth Elizabeth M. Bloch-Smith and an unprecedented commitment by

and an unprecedented commitment by the federal government to attain a more equal society

she was a refugee from Hitler's war on Jews

In January 1878

Social-Relational Readings build upon the idea that narrative discourse is personal but also echoes political

thanks to America's loss of the Pilgrim Father's fix on the idea of a promised land

Qoheleth Elizabeth M. Bloch-Smith and an unprecedented commitment byThis 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