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Of all the books in the Bible, Ecclesiastes is arguably the most philosophical.

Dark, experiential, existential, and unsparingly honest about the human condition,

it wrestles with work, money, ambition, pleasure, time, and death.

And it does so in a way that feels uncannily modern.

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