Norman Mailer called it "the first truly existentialist work, and the only text on existentialist theology."
Norman Mailer called it "the first truly existentialist work, and the only text on existentialist theology." Though the other two books attributed to its author, written earlier, express exuberant religiosity – one describes the dance of David before the Ark – this text is predominantly despairing in tone. It decries, "All rivers run unto the sea, and there is no new thing under the sun. Vanity of Vanities – All is vanity, and even Vanity is but vanity." Duns Scotus believed that it was written when its alleged author, King Solomon, was nearing death. FTP, identify this Book of the Bible which more famously exhorts, "There is a time for love, and a time for war," followed by the Song of Songs and preceded by the Book of Proverbs.
Norman Mailer called it "the first truly existentialist work, and the only text on existentialist theology."
{Ecclesiastes}