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This article is a philosophical re-examination of Ecclesiastes using the work of Martin Heidegger, particularly his early work in Being and Time. Heidegger's focus on death, temporality, and history provides a powerful and compelling framework for understanding these same themes in Ecclesiastes. In elaborating these philosophical motifs and correspondences, this article proposes that לכה should be understood as an analog to Heidegger's concept of Geschichtlichkeit (historicity). If לכה is understood as such, then most of the traditionally puzzling terms in Ecclesiastes (e.g. םלעה, למע, החמש) can be made sense of using the aforementioned philosophical framework. This framework additionally shows that Ecclesiastes (like Being and Time) cannot be understood as a proto-existentialist text.
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