Ecclesiastes
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- 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
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- Citations
- General and cited references
- Further reading
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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.