Excerpt from Words of Koheleth: Son of David, King in Jerusalem; Translated Anew, Divided According to Their Logical Cleavage, and Accompanied With a Study of Their Literary and Spiritual Values and a Running Commentary Soul. Its endeavor thus is, virtually, to create his work anew on his own pattern its direction is one with his; it has at heart the same goal of truth. Such spirit by no means ignores or slights the critical; rather, it takes the critical in, on its way, as an outfit of insight in which also the author himself is concerned, and in whose light the prob lems historic, dogmatic, philological, or whatever else, assume the proportions essentially their due. Thus its criticism has become a thing organic and functional, a structural element of the tissue itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.