{‘Everything is Illusion’}[22nd March 1991]

[Redbook8:354-355][19910322:1201]{‘Everything is Illusion’}[22nd March 1991]

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‘[Ecclesiastes (Qoheleth)]* has the character of a period of transition. The old conventional convictions have been shaken and as yet nothing has taken their place. Hebrew thought is here at the crossroads....

‘The third century BC[E]** is therefore the most likely date of composition.’

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**2048R~256BCE

*** – N[ew] J[erusalem] B[ible] 1013 (Introduction to Ecclesiastes).

****& ‘It warns against attachment to the goods of this world....’

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