Ecclesiastes: A Participatory Study Guide is the ninth volume in the Participatory Study Series and the first that is a guide to an Old Testament book.

There has been much controversy about the correct approach to interpreting Ecclesiastes. Is the author clinically depressed? Should you read the book when youre down in order to find someone who can join you in your misery? Is there anything uplifting in it? There are some who have thought the book doesnt belong in the Bible at all.

Russell L. Meek takes a different approach. Through a serious study of the language and of the relationship...