Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Ancient Interpretations -- Chapter 1: Ecclesiastes as Wisdom: Consulting Early Interpreters -- Chapter 2: Vanity, Human Beings, and the Created World: The Dualistic Method as Applied to Ecclesiastes -- Part 2: Modern Interpretations -- Chapter 3: The Cycle of Life in Ecclesiastes: An Ecological Reading -- Chapter 4: Animal Theology and the Direction of the רוח -- Chapter 5: A Liberationist or Postcolonial Reading?: Ecclesiastes as a Resistant Text -- Chapter 6: Reject or Retrieve?:Feminist Readings of Ecclesiastes 7:23-29 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Ancient Interpreters -- Modern Interpreters -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture.