The
Book of Ecclesiastes, called (icon; ,
Qoheleth, literally, "Preacher," in the Hebrew, or, in the most literal sense of the Greek, "Member of the Assembly," sharing the root
ekklesia with the word for "assembly," or "church," with
Qoheleth being derived from a Heb. word of similar meaning, commonly referred to simply as
Ecclesiastes (abbreviated "Ecc."), is a book of the
Hebrew BibleThe Hebrew Bible is a term used by biblical scholars outside of Judaism to refer to the Tanakh , a canonical collection of Jewish texts, and the common textual antecedent of the several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament...
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