Vanity (or, "Mere Breath")
As you might have noticed, Ecclesiastes is totally obsessed with this word. He can't get enough of it. It's his catchphrase. What "D'oh!" is to Homer Simpson, "All is vanity!" is to Ecclesiastes. B...
The Allegory of Bodily Decay
This allegory ends the part of Ecclesiastes that actually was written or compiled by the Preacher himself. Many commentators have read it as a description of the way the body starts to decay and sh...
The Cycle of Time
Ecclesiastes thinks that, as the narrator says at the beginning of Disney's version of Peter Pan, "This has all happened before, and it will all happen again". Everything that has once occurred wil...