Ecclesiastes: A Literary Analysis
Chaos and order is one unit and one balance. Without chaos there would be no order, no order there will be no chaos. But people tend to misinterpret what chaos and order mean. They began to assess that chaos is bad and order is good. The chaos must be removed, order must be created. With the hope that with the achievement of total order, then peace can be achieved. The relationship between the order and the chaos that has been developed by human philosophy and human science might vary. On the one hand, the chaos might be regarded as the complete opposition of the normative state of affairs that is defined as the order; on the other hand, the chaos might be considered to be new and hardly conceivable extension of the order. Within the literature
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The title is derived from the Hebrew (Qoheleth). The word Qoheleth is translated into "Preacher" implying a religious function. But this book does not reflect the content of the function. Therefore, some scholars propose as an alternative translation teachers, although this word did not succeed in fully capture the basic ideas embodied in the Hebrew term. The freedom of Qoheleth offers us is freedom from ignorance and foolishness; freedom from the illusion of surety, security and permanence; freedom from the mad drive to protect ourselves from the vicissitudes of life through the pursuit of money and possessions. He teaches us how to navigate the chaos of life without hiding behind a false sense of order , imposed either by ourselves by nature or by God. Qoheleth’s God is not the regulator of chaos, but the creator of it. The way of the God (Elohim), as Qoheleth calls reality does not eat us out of chaos, but into it. The way of the God doesn’t promise us happiness, wealth, or health in this world and doesn't even imagine a world to come. The way of God, the way of Qoheleth is learning how to find joy in food, drink, work, partnership, and love. This is not a teaching you can afford to
The title is derived from the Hebrew (Qoheleth). The word Qoheleth is translated into "Preacher" implying a religious function. But this book does not reflect the content of the function. Therefore, some scholars propose as an alternative translation teachers, although this word did not succeed in fully capture the basic ideas embodied in the Hebrew term. The freedom of Qoheleth offers us is freedom from ignorance and foolishness; freedom from the illusion of surety, security and permanence; freedom from the mad drive to protect ourselves from the vicissitudes of life through the pursuit of money and possessions. He teaches us how to navigate the chaos of life without hiding behind a false sense of order , imposed either by ourselves by nature or by God. Qoheleth’s God is not the regulator of chaos, but the creator of it. The way of the God (Elohim), as Qoheleth calls reality does not eat us out of chaos, but into it. The way of the God doesn’t promise us happiness, wealth, or health in this world and doesn't even imagine a world to come. The way of God, the way of Qoheleth is learning how to find joy in food, drink, work, partnership, and love. This is not a teaching you can afford to