Research Seminar 08.07.24: Menachem Fisch and Debra Band - Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living
Monday, 08.07.24, 18:00, Gilman 449
Debra Band
Independent Artist-Scholar
Menachem Fisch
Cohn Institute
Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living
In Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living, Menachem Fisch and Debra Band join forces in offering a first-ever reading of Qohelet as a sustained theo-philosophical attempt to address the fundamental predicament faced by any reasoned human undertaking and all revealed religion. It also offers the first-ever interpretive il-lumination, a comprehensive visual midrash, of both the entire He-brew and English text. Taking the book’s keyword “hevel” as de-noting temporality and impermanence rather than vanity and mean-inglessness, Qohelet is shown to present one of the most anxious and insightful philosophical studies of the prospects of human rea-soning and cooperation, as well as a refreshingly non-submissive form of monotheistic religiosity.
Gathering for coffee and refreshments at 17:45, in room 450
Chair: Shaul Katzir
The public is invited
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