Meaning and Functionality of Hebel in Qoheleth

This book provides a corrective to the "vanity", "meaningless", "absurd" or negative reading of ????? in Qoheleth. It argues that ????? has a positive value, as it expresses not the absurdity or the meaningless of life, but its fleetingness/transitoriness/brevity, whose meaning is disclosed in the opening and closing poems (1:2-11 and 12:1-8).