The present volume contains writings by the renowned Marburg Old Testament scholar Otto Kaiser on the theology, anthropology and ethics of the Book of Ecclesiastes, or Kohelet, and on The Wisdom of Jesus, Son of Sirach (Ecclasisticus) and its background in the history of ideas and of theology. In addition there is an essay on topical problems of the history of salvation and one on present-day problems of the belief in eternal life.

Otto Kaiser, Philipps-Universität Marburg.