Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Song of Solomon
Ecclesiastes
Lamentations
Ruth
Esther
The Megilloth
“Festival Scrolls”
The custom developed of reading one of these
scrolls on each of the five important festivals or
days of religious observance throughout the year.
• What Is Meaningless?
– Personal Pleasures Are Meaningless 2:1
– Worldly Wisdom Is Meaningless 2:12—17
– Life-Long Labor Is Meaningless 2:18—21
• Why Is It Meaningless?
– We Will Be Forgotten 1:11
– We Will Die
Megilloth Ecclesiastes
The Preacher’s Summary:
(Chap. 11—12)