Ecclesiastes

Also known as Book of Ecclesiastes

thumb|upright=1.2|Ecclesiastes 3 in the Leningrad Codex

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Contents

Title
Structure
Summary
Composition
Title, date and author
Genre and setting
Canonicity
Themes
Usage
Judaism
Catholicism
Similarity to other religions
Influence on Western literature
See also
Explanatory notes
Citations
General and cited references
Further reading
External links

thumb|upright=1.2|Ecclesiastes 3 in the Leningrad Codex

Ecclesiastes ( ) is one of the Ketuvim ('Writings') of the Hebrew Bible and part of the wisdom literature of the Christian Old Testament. The title commonly used in English is a Latin transliteration of the Greek translation of the Hebrew word ( or ). An unnamed author introduces "The words of Kohelet, son of David, king in Jerusalem" (1:1) and does not use his own voice again until the final verses (12:9–14), where he gives his own thoughts and summarises the statements of Kohelet; the main body of the text is ascribed to Kohelet.