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==Author==

In the two opening chapters the author describes himself as the son of David, and king over Israel in Jerusalem, presenting himself as a philosopher at the center of a brilliant court. Consequently the traditional Rabbinic and early Christian view attributed ''Ecclesiastes'' to king [[Solomon]]. This view has been abandoned by modern scholars, who now assume that Qoheleth is a work in the [[pseudepigraphy|pseudepigraphical]] tradition that borrowed weight for a new work by putting it in the mouth of a well-known sage. The modern view is that ''Ecclesiastes'' was written aroundbetween [[250 BCEBC|250]] and [[201 BC]] by a non-Hellenized intellectual in the milieu of the [[Second Temple|Temple in Jerusalem]]. The latest possible date for it is set by the fact that [[Ben Sirach]] (written cca [[180 BCE]]) repeatedly quotes or paraphrases it, as from a canonic rather than a contemporary writing.

=="Vanity"==