Markus Saur is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Thomas Römer.
The book of Qohelet is one of the sapiential writings of the Hebrew Bible and, in the context of the sapiential discussions of ancient Jerusalem, develops a unique perspective on the world, man and time. Qohelet has often been regarded as a skeptical, pessimistic, even nihilistic thinker, and his book has been interpreted as testimony to a crisis of wisdom. The four lessons on the book of Qohelet aim to propose another reading of the work : Qohelet's thought will be understood as a particular reflection on fundamental questions of cosmology, anthropology and the theory of time, which opens up new horizons of thought in the discourse on wisdom in the IIIrdcentury BC.
