There is Nothing New Under the Sun

June 24, 2010 at 1:29 pm · Filed under General, Reviews and tagged: Alexandre Dumas, Bereans Online, Ecclesiastes, Elisha, King David, Kohelet, lincoln green, rick spurlock, Robin Hood, Sherwood Forest, Tanakh, The Black Tulip, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Three Musketeers, unabridged

by eshetkayil

I hope the title of this post is familiar to you. It should ring a bell. I’ll wait while you think about it.

Ok, done waiting. It’s from the book of Ecclesiastes. “That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So, there is nothing new under the sun,” King Solomon laments in verse 9 of chapter 1. “Is there anything of which one might say, ‘See this, it is new’? Already it has existed for ages which were before us.” [I’ll just take this opportunity to rabbit-trail for a second and tell you that Rick Spurlock’s week-long study on Ecclesiastes, written to be done during the week of Sukkot, is absolutely excellent. You can find that at www.bereansonline.org.]

As my sisters and I – and I don’t know how many more of you – have been reading through the Bible this summer, we have found time and again that King Solomon was absolutely right! There is nothing new under the sun! The books of I & II Samuel, I & II Kings, and I & II Chronicles are replete with stories I’ve heard before.

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