Ecclesiastes Figures

Ecclesiastes has an unusual perspective on God, one shared by almost no other Biblical writers—except, maybe, in a few ways, for the author of Job (to risk repeating this point again). It's just...

Technically, the "wise man" isn't a character. But Ecclesiastes talks about the behavior of the wise man—as opposed to the behavior of the fool—a great deal, so it'll be useful for us to try to...

The fool is the opposite of the wise man. He just skips around in a giddy delirium all day, nattering on and on about whatever pops into his head. While the wise man sees the vanity of the world, t...