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[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

He also claims to have amassed wisdom above all who were before him,
1:16–18, which also points to Solomon, as none who followed could make that
claim.
Karl W. Randolph.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:03 PM, <dwashbur AT nyx.net> wrote:

>
>
> On 18 Sep 2009 at 11:15, Kevin P. Edgecomb wrote:
>
> > Quoting Rolf Furuli <furuli AT online.no>:
> > > The book implies that Solomon wrote it....
> >
> > I write:
> > But this is not necessarily so.  It states "Son of David, king in
> > Jerusalem" (Qoh 1.1 NRSV).  All of the kings of Judah bore the
> > appellation "Son of David" just as all the rulers in Damascus bore
> > the
> > appellation "Son of Hadad" and various Aramaean dynasts bore the
> > appellation "Son of (PN)" as noted in Assyrian documents.  In view
> > of
> > this, it could be attributed to any of the rulers of Judah,
> > including
> > Jehoiachin who died in Babylon in the late sixth century.
>
> Given the conclusion of the matter in Qohelet, I doubt Jehoiachin would
> have been the
> author.  Kings, Chronicles and Jeremiah all indicate that he "did evil,"
> and there's no
> indication that he repented toward the end of his life.  It seems to me
> that any "son of David"
> who might have written this book would have to have been one of the "good"
> kings, and
> there were none after Josiah.  I doubt it would have been Josiah himself,
> since he didn't
> really amass wealth and concubines and all that, so by a process of
> elimination, it appears
> that the author, if we take his self-appelations at face value, must date
> at least from before
> Josiah, and hence must still be fairly pre-exilic.
>
> Dave Washburn
>
> http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
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