Ecclesiastes is probably best known for the repeated refrain that everything is meaningless, or vanity. A thorough reading demonstrates that this is not the book's final conclusion.

Knut Heim's Tyndale commentary shows a work that is intellectually sophisticated, theologically rich, emotionally deep and full of humor. While it is relentlessly realistic about life, it is also life-affirming, immensely practical and, Heim argues, political in its implications. Concise and exegetically careful, in the Tyndale manner.